Victims and witnesses who provided testimonies
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2020-014-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2020
- 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
- Assistant Secretary-General
- UN Human Rights Council: UN Independent Investigation
- Dates of prior UN action
- 9 March 2020; December 2019
- 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
Commission of Inquiry on Burundi regretted that some victims and direct witnesses who provided testimonies during its field missions in neighbouring countries faced acts of intimidation and threats
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Human Rights Council: UN Independent Investigation
- Dates of engagement
- During CoI field missions
- Type of attempted engagement
- Meeting with UN officials during country visit / with locally present UN officials
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- Unclear
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Threats/Intimidations (incl. "fear of reprisal")
- 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?
- Yes
- 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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