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Pascal: Found executed a few days after his arrest

20.09.2018 - (Last modified: 19.12.2018)
In the summer of 2015, Pascal (real name withheld) received numerous alarming calls informing him that he was actively...

Enforced disappearance and torture due to political activism

20.09.2018 - (Last modified: 19.12.2018)
In April 2015 in Burundi, many people took to the streets to demonstrate against the renewal of President Pierre Nkurun...

Oral statement on Burundi before the Human Rights Council

18.09.2018 - (Last modified: 19.12.2018)
Together with NGOs FIACAT, CCPR Center, DefendDefenders, OMCT and Protection International, TRIAL International has spon...
On 5 September 2018, the UN Commission of Inquiry on Burundi (CoI) released its second - and possibly final - set of co...

Testimonies: when international bodies finally deliver justice

15.08.2018 - (Last modified: 19.12.2018)
Aimable and Emery both suffered a sadly similar fate: victims of torture by Burundian authorities in 2006 and 2007, they...
Burundi refugees

Burundi: Call to renew the mandate of the Commission of Inquiry

08.08.2018 - (Last modified: 19.12.2018)
To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerla...
Pierre-Claver Mbonimpa spent 2 years in prison in Burundi because of his political views. He experienced torture, humili...
Pierre-Claver Mbonimpa
In November 2017, the TRIAL International team undertook a fact-finding mission in Rwanda. The goal was to identify case...
Rape survivor Burundi

Burundian referendum took place amidst fear and repression

16.05.2018 - (Last modified: 22.05.2018)
Violence and repression have been on the rise, casting a dark shadow on the referendum’s outcome. On 17 May 2018, Bu...
Repression Burundi
An oral statement to the Human Rights Council (HRC) on March 13 reports an alarming observation of human rights violatio...
On 9 November, Pre-trial ICC judges have announced that they have authorized the ICC prosecutor to open an investigation...
Today, Burundi’s withdrawal from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) will come into effect – a sa...
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