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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...

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

Liberia asked to bring its former warlords to justice

02.07.2018 - (Last modified: 05.07.2018)
A coalition of 76 non-governmental organizations has called for the Human Rights Committee to ask the Liberian governmen...
Fourteen NGOs, including TRIAL International, have denounced Ali Mamluk’s official visit to Rome in February 2018. The f...

“The torturers seek to crush your soul”

25.06.2018 - (Last modified: 09.07.2018)
On this international day, in support of victims of torture, TRIAL International would like to pay tribute to a victim i...
On 12 June, the appeal trial of Kavumu Case began in Bukavu (DRC). The case relates to the rape of 40 girls for fetishis...
Kavumu trial
The Swiss Federal Criminal Court (FCC) has overturned a decision of the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) to dismiss...
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
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