Members of NGOs with whom experts had met
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2016-021-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2016
- 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
- 22 March 2016
- Type of record
- Unnamed individual/group/organization
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
During their visit to Burundi, in March 2016, the independent experts of the United Nations Independent Investigation on Burundi received allegations of intimidation
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Human Rights Council: UN Independent Investigation
- Dates of engagement
- March 2016
- Type of attempted engagement
- Meeting with UN officials during country visit / with locally present UN officials
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- March 2016
- Reprisal information
received allegations of intimidation and reprisals by the National Intelligence Services against members of NGOs with whom they had met. Feeling threatened, several human rights defenders fled the country and afterwards reported that they remained concerned for the safety of their family members remaining in the country (see A/HRC/33/32, BDI 5/2016).
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Family/friends/acquaintances targeted
- 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
- 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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