Hundreds of prisoners released

Hundreds of prisoners have been released in Burundi in a symbolic ceremony to mark the implementation of a presidential pardon announced at the end of the year. The released prisoners include members of an opposition party who were arrested nearly three years ago during a police crackdown on their demonstration in the capital Bujumbura. One […]

Hundreds of prisoners have been released in Burundi in a symbolic ceremony to mark the implementation of a presidential pardon announced at the end of the year.
The released prisoners include members of an opposition party who were arrested nearly three years ago during a police crackdown on their demonstration in the capital Bujumbura.
One of them called for the release of all political prisoners saying it was ‘’unfair to spend unjustly three years in jail’’.
Thousands of people have been arrested since April 2015 in the wake of protests against a third term for Burundi’s president Pierre NKurunziza.