Burundi
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- republic
- CONSTITUTION
- February 28, 2005; ratified by popular referendum
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on German, Belgian, and customary law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral (Senate and National Assembly)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court, Constitutional Court, Court of Appeal, First Instance Courts
RELIGIONS
62% Catholics; 23% Animists; 10% Muslims; 5% Protestants;
From the country
- FEBRUARY 10, 2003BurundiDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International appealed to African Union observers...
Amnesty International appealed to African Union observers due to visit Burundi, to take note of human rights abuses by the government or rebel movements, especially the killings of unarmed civilians
- JANUARY 1, 2003BurundiDEATH PENALTY
Capital crimes are: premeditated murder, sorcery, treason,...
Capital crimes are: premeditated murder, sorcery, treason, spying, attempt on the Chief of State's life and cannibalism
- JANUARY 1, 2003BurundiDEATH PENALTY
62 executions were carried out in 1999
62 executions were carried out in 1999
- JANUARY 1, 2003BurundiDEATH PENALTY
Premeditated murder, sorcery, treason, spying, attempt...
Premeditated murder, sorcery, treason, spying, attempt on the Chief of State's life and cannibalism
- JANUARY 1, 2003BurundiDEATH PENALTY
Like its neighbour Rwanda, Burundi has long been torn...
Like its neighbour Rwanda, Burundi has long been torn apart by ethnic conflict which has seen hundreds of thousands killed in sporadic massacres
- JANUARY 1, 2003BurundiDEATH PENALTY
A three-year transitional government was set up in...
A three-year transitional government was set up in November 2001 as part of efforts to end the civil war that broke-out in 1993
- JANUARY 1, 2003BurundiDEATH PENALTY
In April 2003 Burundi's transitional national parliament...
In April 2003 Burundi's transitional national parliament voted unanimously to recognise the statute of the International Criminal Court, the United Nation's permanent war crimes court
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2002BurundiDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International's Secretary General, Irene Khan,...
Amnesty International's Secretary General, Irene Khan, declared in a press release in Bujumbura that the Government of Burundi must lift the blanket of impunity and take effective action to end the escalating pattern of killings of civilians by the armed
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2002BurundiDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International published a new report "Poverty,...
Amnesty International published a new report "Poverty, isolation and ill-treatment
- JULY 22, 2002BurundiDEATH PENALTY
A five-day seminar on national and international law...
A five-day seminar on national and international law opened in Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, a country traumatised by years of inter-ethnic conflict
- JUNE 21, 2002BurundiDEATH PENALTY
A criminal court in Gitega, 70 kilometers east of the...
A criminal court in Gitega, 70 kilometers east of the Burundi capital of Bujumbura, sentenced to death 11 people with 16 others to life imprisonment for their participating in massacres some ten years ago
- JUNE 18, 2002BurundiDEATH PENALTY
The criminal court in Ngozi (northern Burundi) has...
The criminal court in Ngozi (northern Burundi) has tried several cases in its current session