Burundi: Detention measures abused

Index Number: AFR 16/011/2006
Date Published: 13 July 2006
Categories: Africa, Burundi

Amnesty International today expressed its concern about continuing arbitrary arrests and detention of civilians and members of civil society by the Burundian authorities. For more than nine months Amnesty International, together with other human rights organizations, has condemned the arbitrary arrests and detention to which the population of Bujumbura-mairie and the provinces of Bujumbura rural, Bubanza and Cibitoke have been consistently subjected.