Situation of human rights in Burundi (2016), para. 22
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2. Strongly condemns all violations and abuses of human rights in Burundi by all actors, particularly those involving mass arbitrary arrests and detentions, including cases involving children, cases of torture and other cruel, inhuman and/or degrading treatment, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, sexual and gender-based violence, persecution of and threats against members of civil society, journalists, members of the opposition and demonstrators, including young demonstrators, and restrictions on the freedoms of expression, peaceful assembly and association, creating a climate of intimidation and fear that paralyses the whole of society;