« Violations of the right to life, torture practices and inertia of the judiciary in the face of persistent impunity. »
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
From 1 to 31 October 2026, ACAT-Burundi’s network of observers documented and verified 23 cases of serious human rights violations affecting 33 people in each of the country’s five provinces. Three trends emerge: the predominance of violations of the right to life, the persistent use of incommunicado detention by the National Intelligence Service (SNR), and the almost total absence of prosecution when state agents are implicated.
