Burundi: Suspected Opponents Killed, Detained, Tortured

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Burundi's president Évariste Ndayishimiye at the European Union-Africa Union Summit in Brussels, Belgium, on Feb. 17, 2022. © 2022 Valeria Mongelli/Bloomberg via Getty Images (Nairobi) – Burundi’s national intelligence services, police, and ruling party youth members have killed, arbitrarily detained, tortured and harassed people suspected of belonging to opposition parties or of working with armed opposition groups, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities have responded to attacks on both civilians and state agents by armed assailants or suspected rebel group…

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