Burundi bans 6th human rights association in three months

Burundi has banned another human rights association from working in the nation in the wake of banning five others in October.

The most established rights association in the nation, Ligue Iteka, has been banned by Burundi's Ministry of Interior for "sowing disdain and division inside the Burundian people group."

An announcement marked by the inside clergyman Pascal Barandagiye said the rights association's stubbornness required the total boycott chose by a Commission of Inquiry.

Be that as it may, the director of Ligue Iteka, Anshaire Nikoyagize, said the exercises of the association won't be influenced in any capacity by the boycott.

"This suspension won't in any capacity hamper the accomplishment of the affiliation's objectives. We will continue educating the national and worldwide group regardless of the possibility that the dangers against us keep on increasing," he said.

Ligue Iteka was incidentally suspended together with three others on October 24, 2016 while five others including – Forum for the Strengthening of Civil Society (FORSC), The Forum for Awareness and Development (FOCODE), Christian Action for the Abolition of Torture (ACAT), Association for Protection of the Human Rights and Detained people (APRODH) and Network of Honest Citizens (RCP) were banned totally.

The assents, as per the administration, are because of deviations by the associations from their missions.

"These affiliations are fairly bustling discoloring the picture of their nation and blending up contempt and division between Burundians," Barandagiye said in October.

In November, Ligue Iteka in association with the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) distributed a report blaming the legislature for suppression and state-supported viciousness.