source: Infowakat; MinuteBf; Fasozine; Burkina24; Sidwaya; Le Faso; AIB (Burkina Faso)
actor1: Rioters (Burkina Faso)
actor2: Civilians (Burkina Faso)
location: Laye
notes: On 19 February 2020, residents in Laye mobilized and vandalized and torched a youth detention center amid the discovery of the corpse of a seventeen-year-old girl with traces of rape and strangulation. Minors at the center were urgently evacuated while security forces attempted to calm the situation. [size=no report]