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Burundi doctors imprisoned for quitting over low pay

 

Five doctors in Burundi have been imprisoned by the intelligence service after quitting their jobs over the failure of salary negotiations, union and government sources told AFP on Tuesday.

The doctors were arrested by the intelligence service between December 27 and January 31, accused of “undermining the internal security of the state”, according to a manager of the Burundi General Practitioners’ Union.

Like other interviewees, he requested anonymity for fear of the harsh treatment of government critics in Burundi, a small country in the Great Lakes region of Africa scarred by poverty, political violence and a long civil war.

The doctors “were detained without an arrest warrant and have been imprisoned since then in the dungeons of the SNR (National Intelligence Service)”, the union source said.

Four other doctors have been threatened, receiving “intimidating messages…
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