Burundi: Fear of execution: Draft legislation proposing summary trials and executions

Index Number: AFR 16/023/2004
Date Published: 19 November 2004
Categories: Africa, Burundi

A draft law proposing that people caught in the act of committing violent crimes, including murder, armed robbery and rape, be dealt with through a radically shortened judicial procedure is due to be presented to the National Assembly of Burundi next week. The draft law is being presented as a response to an increase in violent crime.