Abusing children's human rights: interviews with child prisoners in Burundi Published by: Human Rights Watch, 2007
Via: Eldis
There is currently no juvenile justice system in Burundi, no alternatives to incarceration for children and no services to help children once they are released from prison. This report details the failings of Burundi’s criminal system and their impacts on children. The information is based primarily on interviews with 142 children in prison, lock-ups or demobilisation centres or who had been recently released from detention, as well as a survey of all 136 children incarcerated in the Mpimba central prison.
Interviews with the children and other stakeholders indicate that children’s rights are frequently abused by the criminal justice system, both in initial arrest, sentencing and during their incarceration
(http://hrw.org/reports/2007/burundi0307/burundi0307webwcover.pdf)
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