Inter Parliamantry Union (IPU)Pushes for Progress on MPs Human Rights Cases in Burundi – IPU is pushing for progress on resolving alleged human rights cases of 20 MPs and former MPs in Burundi with the president of its Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians and Malian MP, Kassoum Tapo, leading a second mission to the country in two years. As part of the mission on 17-20 June, Tapo and IPU staff will examine the judicial proceedings against four former MPs, including Gérard Nkurunziza, who has been in pre-trial detention for almost five years, and Hussein Radjabu, a senior politician who was sentenced to 13 years in prison for subversion in a judicial process characterized by serious irregularities. Tapo will explore possibilities for Radjabu’s release or retrial and aims to visit both Radjabu and Nkurunziza in detention. IPU is also calling for effective investigations into the assassinations and attempted assassinations of eight MPs in the 1990s, as well as grenade attacks on a further eight members of the previous parliament in 2007 and 2008 - all of which remain unpunished. The mission will seek to verify whether the current draft bill of a long-awaited Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC) would give jurisdiction to the TRC to conduct independent inquiries into these cases.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:15:33 +0000
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