Those individuals who cooperated or who wished to cooperate with the investigation
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2017-016-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2017
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: -3.373056
Longitude: 29.918886
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- Burundi
- From Region
- UN body that raised the case prior to the SG report
- UN Human Rights Council: UN Independent Investigation
- Dates of prior UN action
- 14 June 2017
- Type of record
- Unnamed individual/group/organization
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Type of rights defended
- Unclear in SG Report
- Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
Cooperation with experts conducting the independent investigation on Burundi
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Human Rights Council: UN Independent Investigation
- Dates of engagement
- Unclear
- Type of attempted engagement
- Meeting with UN officials during country visit / with locally present UN officials
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- Unclear
- Reprisal information
Threat of reprisals for those individuals who cooperated or who wished to cooperate with the investigation, noting that the investigation faced several challenges, including the fact that two of its four planned visits could not be carried out. Some victims and witnesses feared reprisals.
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Threats/Intimidations (incl. "fear of reprisal")
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- State actors
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- No
- Further case development
In their recommendations, the experts stressed that the Government should immediately cease its reprisals and threats against individuals who cooperated with the experts and other human rights mechanisms and organizations.
- Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
- No
- Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
- No
- Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
- No
- How many times has the case been followed up in subsequent SG reports?
- 0
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