Burundi: A new opportunity to confront torture and impunity: Cases for appeal

Index Number: AFR 16/044/2001
Date Published: 1 December 2001
Categories: Africa, Burundi

The purpose of this document, issued in connection with a Memorandum, is to highlight some individual cases of people who have been victims of human rights violations in Burundi, illustrating the incidence and extreme nature of torture in Burundi, and the unfairness of a justice system which does not guarantee the right to appeal.