Inmates have told AFP that conditions in Burundi's prisons are "inhumane". "We can go several days without food, there is no medicine, most of the prisoners sleep on the floor," said one of them ...

Prison conditions are deplorable for all prisoners in Burundi who lack space, adequate food, water, bedding and sanitary facilities. Insufficient food and lack of education particularly affect ...

This report is based on interviews carried out by Human Rights Watch researchers between May 2006 and February 2007 with 112 children imprisoned in ten of the eleven prisons in Burundi.