Burundi: Account for Dead in Gitega Prison Fire

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A fire broke out in a severely overcrowded prison in Gitega, Burundi’s political capital, early on December 7, 2021. © 2021 Private (Nairobi) – Burundian authorities should credibly investigate and provide a transparent and reliable account of the December 7, 2021, fire at Gitega’s central prison, Human Rights Watch said today. Several hundred prisoners may have died or been injured. The authorities have failed to conduct a transparent, credible, and impartial investigation into the fire to examine the circumstances in which it started and spread, officials’ reaction…

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