A/HRC/42/49 141. D’envisager, en cas de persistance de la situation actuelle au Burundi, l’application de l’article 4 (h) de son Acte constitutif, autorisant l’Union africaine à intervenir dans un État membre dans certaines circonstances, notamment en cas de crimes contre l’humanité. 9. À la Communauté des États d’Afrique de l’Est 142. De s’assurer que l’amélioration rapide de la situation des droits de l’homme soit une priorité dans ses efforts de médiation. 10. Aux garants de l’Accords d’Arusha de 2000, en leur qualité d’acteurs engagés en faveur d’une paix durable au Burundi 143. De se réunir le plus rapidement possible en vue de trouver une solution pérenne à la crise politique et des droits de l’homme au Burundi. Version anglaise 1. The Burundian authorities should: 144. Put an immediate end to the gross human rights violations being committed by agents of the State and Imbonerakure over which the State exercises control; 145. Investigate these violations, ensure that the alleged perpetrators are prosecuted promptly in accordance with credible, independent and fair procedures, and that the victims obtain just reparation, and, where the alleged perpetrators are agents of the State, suspend them from their duties pending the completion of the investigation and the judicial proceedings; 146. Take practical measures to bring about a rapid improvement of the human rights situation, in particular by: • Withdrawing the warrants for the arrest of heads of media outlets, civil society organizations and political parties who have neither used nor advocated violence, and permitting their safe return to Burundi; • Lifting the suspension and reversing the revocation of the licences of media and civil society organizations, permitting them to resume their activities with complete independence and reviewing the laws adopted in 2017 concerning non-profit organizations and foreign non-governmental organizations; • Immediately releasing all political prisoners; • Ensuring that every person arrested is detained in an official place of detention and that national and international observers are allowed to visit them; • Ensure that criminal investigation officers (officiers de police judiciaire) are not authorized to conduct searches without a warrant, including at night, as envisaged in the draft amendments to the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure; • Ensuring that individuals lacking legal authorization, particularly the Imbonerakure, do not perform or participate in law enforcement activities, including in places of detention, and do not wear military or police uniforms or possess weapons; • Prosecuting individuals who incite hatred or violence; • Putting an end to threats, intimidation and acts of extortion by State officials and the Imbonerakure; • Giving victims of sexual violence and torture access to medical and psychosocial services. 147. Undertake a thorough reform of the judiciary, in particular by: • Publishing the conclusions of the General Convention on the Judiciary (États généraux de la justice) held in Gitega in 2013; GE.19-13419 45

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