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Detainees “no longer at risk of torture”

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    The UK-based rights watchdog - Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday said that the lives of three people arrested in Bujumbura on 15 June, were “no longer considered to be at risk of ill-treatment or torture”. A statement from the organisation said that the three, Salvator Ndagijimana (aged 14), Celestin Hatungimana (20) and Olivier Nsabukungiza (25) were transferred to Mpimba Central Prison in Bujumbura on 6 July. They are reported to have been ill-treated or tortured following their arrest. Initially, all were held in military custody before being transferred to a gendarmerie special investigation unit, the Brigade speciale de recherche (BSR) in Bujumbura. Ndagijimana has been charged with belonging to an armed opposition group, the Forces nationales pour la Liberation (FNL). The other two, Hatungimana and Nsabukungiza are now reportedly being charged with looting, the organisation said.

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