Examples of using Mpimba prison in English and their translations into Russian
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The situation at Mpimba prison has not changed significantly since last year.
Certain persons have allegedly been transferred to Mpimba prison without a detention warrant.
In December, Mpimba prison was housing 2,583 detainees, of whom 1,373 were awaiting trial and 1,199 had been convicted.
At dawn on 31 July 1997, six people under sentence of death were executed by hanging at Mpimba prison, in Bujumbura.
The independent expert undertook visits to Mpimba prison and field visits to the provinces of Muyinga, Ngozi and Ruyigi.
Commander Ndayitwayeko, a political prisoner, is still in pre-trial detention in Mpimba prison, after two years.
The next day, he was transferred to Mpimba prison on the basis of an arrest warrant for killing four people.
Diomède Rutamucero, president of the Puissance d'autodéfense-Amasekanya, had been in Mpimba prison since 22 May 2003.
The Special Rapporteur met minors in Mpimba prison who had been waiting for several months to see the judge.
The independent expert visited the Rumonge prison in the province of Bururi and the Mpimba prison in Bujumbura Mairie.
During his visit to Mpimba prison, the independent expert also met Jean Claude Kavumbagu, journalist and director of the agency Net Press.
Four persons suspected of being involved in the attacks were arrested by the police on 20 June 2010 and transferred to Mpimba prison on 7 July 2010.
In March 2007, more than 65 children who had been detained in Mpimba prison for their alleged association with Palipehutu-FNL were also released.
During her visit to Mpimba prison, the Special Rapporteur was able to meet Mr. Charles Mukasi, the detained leader of an opposition wing of the Union for National Progress Party UPRONA.
She expressed the hope that the remaining 22 children at Mpimba prison on similar charges would be released as soon as possible.
The 229 prisoners in Mpimba prison who have been sentenced to death and are awaiting execution share three cells, each one measuring a few square meters.
After two hours of interrogation, without his lawyer being present, Mr. Kavumbagu was officially charged with treason andimmediately transferred to Mpimba prison.
She also heard the viewpoint of prisoners during her visit to Mpimba prison in Bujumbura and the cachots of the Special Investigations Brigade(BSR) in Bujumbura.
She visited Mpimba prison in the Bujumbura Urban province to assess changes in prison conditions and meet with certain detainees, specifically juveniles.
As part of its overall assessment of the administration of justice, the mission visited the Mpimba prison, where it witnessed the severe overcrowding and harsh conditions of detention.
During his visit to Mpimba prison, on 23 June, the Special Rapporteur met a number of military personnel and civilians who had been waiting months or even years for their trial.
According to the statement of a second-year literature student named Alain-Aimé Nyamitwe,who is at present detained in Mpimba prison, he left the school at about 4.50 p.m. to go home.
She visited Mpimba prison in Bujumbura Urban province to assess changes in prison conditions and meet some of the detainees, specifically juveniles.
With over 2,500 detainees in a prison whose maximum capacity is 800,more than 1,000 of whom are awaiting trial, the Mpimba prison, the highest-security prison in Burundi, has no capacity to absorb any more detainees.
In Mpimba prison, he interviewed the former chairman of the ruling party Conseil national de défense et de la démocratie-Forces de défense et de la démocratie(CNDD-FDD) on the circumstances of his arrest, detention and trial at the Supreme Court.
During his visit, the independent expert was able to speak with a victim of torture, a young man,held prisoner at Mpimba Prison, who showed evidence of torture which he reported had been inflicted to him in Ngozi district.
He also drew the Minister's attention to the slowness of the courts' handling of certain cases and to the improper use of pretrial detention, which is one of the causes of the overcrowding of prisons, particularly at Mpimba prison.
The independent expert who visited the detainees at Mpimba prison in October 2006 confirmed that the prisoners had been physically mistreated, which was later verified by medical report.
Thus, during the night of 27-28 December 1995 two non-commissioned officers and two other ranks held at the Mpimba prison were reportedly shot by a prison warder when trying to escape, according to a communiqué broadcast on national radio.
On 23 June 1995 the Special Rapporteur visited the Mpimba prison in Bujumbura, in the company of the Minister for Human Rights, Social Welfare and the Advancement of Women, to talk with the Director of the establishment, make a brief visit of the premises and interview some inmates.