Burundi: Health concern / illegal detention

Index Number: AFR 16/014/2003
Date Published: 13 August 2003
Categories: Africa, Burundi

Amnesty International has just learnt that seven named men and others are being held illegally in harsh and potentially life-threatening conditions in police custody in Kirundo, north-west Burundi. A combination of inadequate diet, unsanitary and unhealthy conditions of detention poses a serious threat to detainees' health, particularly over a long period of time.