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Burundi: enforced disappearances “systematic and widespread”

16.10.2017 - (Last modified: 22.02.2019)
TRIAL International and the FOCODE denounce with a common voice the widespread crimes in Burundi to the UN Working Group...
The United Nations Commission of Inquiry reckoned that crimes against humanity had been committed in Burundi since 2015....
To Permanent Representatives of Members and Observer States of the UN Human Rights Council: Renewing the Mandate of the...
Alice (real name withheld) lives in Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi. Despite the government’s assertions that the coun...

Repression in Burundi, arrest in the DRC

03.07.2017 - (Last modified: 07.07.2017)
Journalist Egide Mwemero was tortured in the DRC for “crimes” committed in Burundi – a case that illustrates the silenc...
Mr Janvier Bigirimana took part in a TRIAL International training in 2014. How did this new knowledge help him in his f...
On the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, the international community reiterates the...
In a Communication to the International Criminal Court (ICC), TRIAL argues that Burundi is failing to investigate and pu...

Burundi: civil society raises the alarm

18.05.2017 - (Last modified: 08.06.2017)
Four representatives of Burundian NGOs visited Geneva. Pierre-Claver MBONIMPA (President of the APRODH), Armel NIYONGER...
An op-ed by Pamela Capizzi Citing numerous cases of enforced disappearances, TRIAL International calls on the United Na...

A student unjustly jailed for years

26.04.2017 - (Last modified: 17.08.2017)
Onesphore Case Student and member of the opposition detained Mr. Onesphore (real name withheld) is a student and political opponent. In 2015, while having lunch, he was arrested by police officers and locked up in a cell, before being transferred to a prison, where he is still detained to this day. Like others before him, he is a victim of the wave of arrests of p...

Disappearance of Jean Bigirimana exemplifies an alarming trend

10.04.2017 - (Last modified: 13.04.2017)
The journalist and critic of the government disappeared in July 2016. In the face of his family’s distress and the gove...
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