Alerts in Burundi
Student and Professor held in Detention: Fear of Torture
Action Alert
Date: 19 December 2002
Amnesty International has issued the following Action Alert the 19 December 2002. Amnesty International remains concerned for the safety and well-being of the men named above (and Leonidas Ntakaye (m), Zenon Nimbona (m), Christophe Hicintuka (m), Jules Gatonga (m), Bernard Rutegaka (m)) who are being held on suspicion of involvement in an alleged plot to destabilize Burundi's Transitional Government and to assassinate President Pierre Buyoya and Jean Minani, President of the Transitional National Assembly.
Fear of Torture for Students and Professor(s)
Action Alert
Date: 11 November 2002
Amnesty International issued this alert on the 11 November 2002 , Elvis Kazungu (m), Hilaire Ntahomvukiye (m) at least three other unnamed university students and other people are being held incommunicado in security force detention in the capital Bujumbura. Elvis Kazungu has reportedly been tortured.