Algeria, between Arab uprisings and destabilization in the Sahel
Algeria, between Arab uprisings and destabilization in the Sahel Omar Benderra, April 2012 The question frequently asked since the beginning of what the media calls the Arab spring:...
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Harassment against those who struggle for human rights must stop!
JOINT PRESS RELEASE ALGERIA: Harassment against those who struggle for human rights must stop! Paris – Geneva, April 25, 2012. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights...
Gordon Campbell on the arrest of Mourad Dhina
Gordon Campbell on the arrest of Mourad Dhina Thursday, 26 January 2012 ttp://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1201/S00135/gordon-campbell-on-the-arrest-of-mourad-dhina.htm Gordon Campbell on the arrest of Mourad Dhina, and France’s ongoing problems with the Arab...
Algeria police on alert after riots
Algeria police on alert after riots First protester’s death reported and football matches cancelled following fresh unrest in North African nation Yasmine Ryan, Al Jatzeera, 08 Jan 2011...
Guantanamo detainee sent home against his will
Guantanamo detainee sent home against his will AFP, 7 january 2011 WASHINGTON — US officials said Thursday an Algerian national who was held at Guantanamo and cleared of...
Algerians riot over rising price of food
Algerians riot over rising price of food By Roula Khalaf and Javier Blas in London Published: January 6 2011 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bbdba3c8-19bf-11e0-b921-00144feab49a.html Rising food prices have provoked riots in Algeria,...
Algeria-Watch: Publications
Publications More than 100 cases of enforced disappearance from Jijel governorate submitted to the UN (AK+AW, 31.12.09) Rachid Ramda: An Unsurprising But Disconcerting Verdict (P. Tourion, AW, 10.11.09)...
The tragedy of Algeria’s ‘disappeared’
The tragedy of Algeria’s ‘disappeared’ The Algerian government is trumpeting the revolution that put an end to French colonial rule half a century ago. But what followed left...
Algeria-Watch: Human Rights Violations > Disappearance
Disappearance The tragedy of Algeria’s ‘disappeared’ (F. Gèze, S. Mellah, 22.12.10) Elected member of the FIS – arrested, crucified and disappeared – Alkarama sends Lakhdar Bouzania’s case sent...
Algeria. The impossible transitional justice
Algeria. The impossible transitional justice by François Gèze and Salima Mellah, Algeria-Watch, 22 decembre 2010 A paper to be published in Nadya Nedelsky and Lavinia Stan (ed.), The...
Osama bin Laden and the Sahel
Osama bin Laden and the Sahel In one message, bin Laden has propelled the little known crisis in the Sahel to international prominence. Jeremy Keenan, Al Jazeera, 3...
General Toufik: ‘God of Algeria’
General Toufik: ‘God of Algeria’ Could the demise of the world’s longest serving ‘intelligence chief’ be imminent? Jeremy Keenan, Al Jazeera, 29 Sep 2010 September 2010 is the...
Algeria: Anti-corruption activist to face trial
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Public Statement AI Index: MDE 28/009/2010 8 September 2010 Algeria: Anti-corruption activist to face trial Algerian authorities should ensure that judicial proceedings against Djilali Hadjadj, a...
‘Secret hand’ in French Sahel raid
‘Secret hand’ in French Sahel raid By Jeremy Keenan, Al-Jazeera.net, 8 August 2010 France’s raid into Mali on Thursday, July 22, in an attempt to liberate a French...
Mothers of the disappeared severely beaten by police forces
ALGERIA Mothers of the disappeared severely beaten by police forces The Euro-Mediterranean Federation against Enforced Disappearances (FEMED) rises up against the violent repression yesterday morning of mothers of...
Algeria-Watch: Army and DRS heads are responsible and guilty
Algeria-Watch Army and DRS heads are responsible and guilty Statement on the allegations of Farouk Ksentini regarding the responsibility of the Algerian state in forced disappearances April 4,...
Algeria: Stop Suppressing Protests
Algeria: Stop Suppressing Protests Police Ban March and Arrest Organizers who Called State TV a ‘Propaganda Machine’ (New York, May 3, 2010) – Algeria should end its repressive...
Slovakia: Expulsion of Mustapha Labsi Violated International Law
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Public Statement EUR 72/001/2010 28 April 2010 Slovakia: Expulsion of Mustapha Labsi Violated International Law Amnesty International has condemned the actions of the Slovak authorities for...
Algeria-Watch: Human Rights Violations > Asylum
Asylum Slovakia: Expulsion of Mustapha Labsi Violated International Law (AI, 28.04.10) Indefinite detention of four Algerian men unlawful (IRR, 28.02.08) The Algerian refugee Ahmed Zaoui is no longer...
Elected member of the FIS – arrested, crucified and disappeared – Alkarama sends Lakhdar Bouzania’s case sent to the Human Rights Committee
Elected member of the FIS – arrested, crucified and disappeared – Alkarama sends Lakhdar Bouzania’s case to the Human Rights Committee Alkarama for Human Rights, 11 January 2010...
More than 100 cases of enforced disappearance from Jijel governorate submitted to the UN
More than 100 cases of enforced disappearance from Jijel governorate submitted to the UN Alkarama and Algeria-Watch, 31 december 2009 Disgruntled by the Algerian authorities’ lack of response...
Rachid Ramda: An Unsurprising But Disconcerting Verdict
Rachid Ramda: An Unsurprising But Disconcerting Verdict By Pascal Tourion, translated by Eleanor, Algeria-Watch, 10th November 2009 On the 13th of October at 5.30 pm, at the end...
Algeria: More Violence and “Normality”
Algeria: More Violence and “Normality” by David Porter; December 20, 2007, ZNet , http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=14554 In spectacular fashion, the latest suicide attacks in Algiers confirm that nothing basic has...
The scramble for Africa’s oil
The scramble for Africa’s oil Christopher Thompson, Newstatesman, 14 June 2007 http://www.newstatesman.com/200706180024 Within a decade, the US will be heavily dependent on African oil. Little wonder the Pentagon...
Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb and the April 11, 2007 attacks in Algiers
Al-QaEda in the Islamic Maghreb and the April 11, 2007 attacks in Algiers Clashes between factions against the backdrop of geopolitical conflicts by François Gèze and Salima...
Islamist political parties and movements in Algeria : which prospects for the European Union?
Islamist political parties and movements in Algeria : which prospects for the European Union? by François Burgat (Directeur de recherche, CNRS) and François Gèze (publisher, La Découverte) The...
Truth and justice after a brutal civil war
Truth and justice after a brutal civil war Algeria: the women speak By Wendy Kristianasen, Le Monde Diplomatique, April 2006 The 200,000 dead and 8,000 disappeared of Algeria’s...
The coming wars
THE COMING WARS What the Pentagon can now do in secret. by SEYMOUR M. HERSH, The New Yorker, Issue of 2005-01-24 and 31 Posted 2005-01-17 Two former C.I.A....
Algeria-Watch: Analyses
Analyses The scramble for Africa’s oil (Newstatesman, 14.06.07) Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb and the April 11, 2007 attacks in Algiers (F.Gèze, S. Mellah, 21.04.07) Islamist political parties and...
Algeria stumbles toward a new era
Algeria stumbles toward a new era Stirrings of democracy By Stanley A. Weiss (International Herald Tribune), Thursday, October 30, 2003 ALGIERS: Is the greater Middle East on the...
One Big Murder Mystery
One Big Murder Mystery Adam Shatz , London Review on Books, 7 octobre 2004 The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra trans. John Cullen Heinemann, 195 pp, £10.99...
Algeria and terrorism – A complex web
Algeria and terrorism A complex web Strategic Comments, International Institute of strategic Studies, Volume 9, Issue 6, August 2003 The International Institute for strategic Studies, Volume 9 Issue...
Algeria’s ashes
Algeria’s ashes Adam Shatz, The New York Times Book Review, July 18, 2003 General Khaled Nezzar is often called the « godfather » of Algeria. He is a senior member...
The Collapse of the Second Front
The Collapse of the Second Front Jeremy Keenan | September 26, 2006 http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3544 Editor: John Feffer, IRC It started in 2002 with a few hesitant probes that were...
DRS, GIA and Impunity
DRS, GIA and Impunity Mohammed Samraoui, July 2003 (translation from french) Mohammed Samraoui, ex-colonel of the Algerian Secret Services (DRS), ex-right hand man of the chief counterspy Smaïn...
The contest for memory
The contest for memory Both France and Britain are struggling to come to terms with the bloody record of their empires. Naima Bouteldja and Stuart Hodkinson, The Guardian,...
The Facade of Democracy and Obstacles to the Exercise of Trade Union Rights in Algeria
The Facade of Democracy and Obstacles to the Exercise of Trade Union Rights in Algeria Soleiman Adel Guémar » Hysbysu. The Magazine of the South Wales WEA –...
El Para, the Maghreb’s Bin Laden
Who staged the tourist kidnappings? El Para, the Maghreb’s Bin Laden The mysterious El Para affair in Algeria may prove that the Maghreb has become a target for...
Torture in Algeria: Past Acts that Haunt France
TORTURE IN ALGERIA: PAST ACTS THAT HAUNT FRANCE Liberty, equality and colony By Olivier Le Cour Grandmaison , Le Monde Diplomatique, June 2001 The war in Algeria has...
Algeria’s Tragic Contradictions
Democratization in the Middle East Algeria’s Tragic Contradictions Lahouari Addi, Journal of Democracy 7.3 (1996) 94-107 Democratization is the order of the day in the Third World, but...
