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Nezzar vs Souaidia: Military economists in the dock Algeria Interface, July 5, 2002 The military strong men who effectively ruled the country since cancelling elections in 1992 have...

Interface Interviews: Farouk Ksentini Algeria Interface, June 28 2002 Algiers, 28/06/02 – Lawyer Farouk Ksentini was appointed president of official rights watchdog the Consultative Committee for Human Rights...

Algeria claims ruthless rebel leader is dead after shoot-out By Robert Fisk – 10 February 2002, http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=119208 Antar Zouabri is dead. Or so say the Algerian authorities. Along...

Algeria watchers at Paris symposium take grim stock Algeria Interface, May 22, 2005 The Paris-based International Studies and Research Centre (CERI) held a symposium on May 21st devoted...

Algerian Army Role on Trial in Paris PARIS, Jul 04, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) A Paris courtroom has become a public stage for charges that the Algerian...

Education figures belie facts Algeria Interface, October 2002 Ostensibly statistics show profound official commitment to schooling in Algeria. The true picture, though, is one of overcrowded classrooms, high...

Sidelined youth has no choice but to riot Algeria Interface, June 21, 2002 Daho Djerbal, history lecturer at the University of Algiers and director of the review, NAQD,...

Parents demand the truth into Serkadji prison Algeria Interface, May 25, 2002 Algiers, 28/05/02 – In the spate of fires that ravaged Algeria’s prisons in April one was...

Draft reveals sweeping privatisation plans Algeria Interface, April 23, 2002 Algeria Interface has obtained a copy of privatisation plans that go far beyond those for which former Privatisation...

Escalation in « political » arrests Algeria Interface, May 25, 2002 As arrests of demonstrators, protesters and human rights activists vague continue to swell, there are growing fears of an...

Only the women survive Algeria Interface, March 22, 2002 Since the death of feared GIA leader, Antar Zouabri, the only surviving Zouabris are the womenfolk. His mother and...

Relizane mass graves affair a test case Algeria Interface, March 21, 2002 A human rights campaigner who denounced atrocities in the town of Relizane is to be jailed...

A Look-back in anger Algeria Interface, March 22, 2002 The Mass Graves of Relizane Affair is the story of a local official’s reign of terror and one man’s...

The army: Friends of the scorched earth Algeria Interface, 25 January 2002 Bainem Forest outside Algiers is an ecological disaster zone that grimly illustrates the toll civil strife...

Algerian freed as Blunkett stops case Crown evidence in extradition cases questioned Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian, February 16, 2002 http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,651252,00.html David Blunkett yesterday stopped the extradition of an...

HRW’s 2002 world report on Algeria US-based rights group, Human Rights Watch (HRW), says that although Algerian rights violations continued to abate, continue they did. www.algeria-interface.com/new/article.php-article_id=17&lng=e.htm Algiers, 17/01/02...

Out of the dark, into the courts The Dirty War 1992-2000 Index on Censorship, 27.07.2002 http://www.indexonline.org/en/news/articles/2002/3/out-of-the-dark-into-the-courts.shtml The Algerian establishment usually ignores widespread allegations of human rights abuses by...

A Damning Indictment of Torture Algeria Interface, June 28, 2002 « Dans les geôles de Nezzar » (In the Gaols of Nezzar) is a student’s account of his own experience...

EU links criticised because of Algerian state violence Amnesty calls for end to secrecy on eve of Algiers visit Ian Black in Brussels, The Guardian, June 4, 2002...

Middle classes in hock Algeria Interface, September 27, 2001 Rampant poverty has now spread to the middle classes. Nowhere is their plight more graphically illustrated than at the...

How Britain betrayed me Jason Burke, chief reporter, The Observer – Sunday February 18, 2001 British security services ordered illegal burglaries in Muslim places of worship to gather...

Rank Defence Powerful former general, Khaled Nezzar, gave an orthodox defence of the army at a public conference in Paris. www.algeria-interface.com/new/article.php-article_id=236&lng=e.htm Paris, 26/04/01 – The visit to Paris...

Letter alleges muder by militia mayor A letter to an independent human rights’ group has raised hopes of bringing before the courts a militia leader and local politician...

Mission improbable www.algeria-interface.com/new/article.php-article_id=224&lng=e.htm Algeria’s Minister for Religious Affairs believes proselytising Protestants pose a threat to regional unity. Algiers, 05/04/01 – In an interview to the weekly supplement of...

« Hogra » is the lot of all youg Algerians www.algeria-interface.com/new/article.php-article_id=203&offset=0&lng=e.htm The authorities’ attempt to single out rioting as peculiar to Kabylia have backfired. Official contempt and brutality have fuel...

The plot thickens over planned curbs on press freedom Algeria Interface, 02.02.2001, www.algeria-interface.com/new/article.php-article_id=126&lng=e.htm A document leaked to the press has revealed the authorities have worrying plans to curtail...

Algeria Flooding and Muddied State-Society Relations Azzedine Layachi*, Middle East Report online, December 11, 2001 http://www.merip.org/mero/mero121101.html On November 10, 2001, heavy rains flooded many parts of Algeria, causing...

Former officer testifies to army atrocities Algeria Interface, 09.02.2001, www.algeria-interface.com/new/article.php-article_id=130&lng=e.htm A newly published book written by a former Algerian army officer supplies chilling evidence of security forces’ implication...

The Matoub affair as murky as ever Algeria Interface, 08.02.2001, www.algeria-interface.com/new/article.php-article_id=127&lng=e.htm Two-and-a-half years after folk singer Matoub Lounès was killed in an ambush, a murk of claim and...

Only questions, o answers over first press killing 07.03.01. www.algeria-interface.com/new/article.php-article_id=137&lng=e.htm The murder of journalist Tahar Djaout in May 1993 was the first of many in the 90s. Like...

Alleged torturers get warning www.algeria-interface.com/new/article.php-article_id=237&lng=e.htm Three criminal actions filed against hardline former Defence Minister, Khaled Nezzar, are a warning to Algeria’s senior security officials. Paris, 27/04/01 – An...

Abdelkadar Hachani Islamic leader with a vision of national reconciliation in Algeria Douglas Johnson, The Guardian, November 26, 1999 http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,252172,00.html The Algerian Islamic leader Abdelkader Hachani lived in...

Algeria’s phantom thousands www.algeria-interface.com/new/article.php-article_id=228&offset=0&lng=e.htm Investigations and eyewitness accounts show security forces are behind many « enforced disappearances ». Algiers, 06/04/01 — Among the atrocities he describes in a recently published...

Citizens’ groups under threat Algeria Interface, 09.02.2001, www.algeria-interface.com/new/article.php-article_id=128&lng=e.htm Citizens’ groups and charities in Algeria face increasingly repressive Kafkaesque bureaucracy and police intimidation. Algiers, 09/02/01 – Citizens’ groups and...

Terrorist fears serve anti-immigration ends 17.10.01, www.algeria-interface.com/new/article.php-article_id=158&lng=e.htm The US terrorist attacks has prompted a further tightening of an already repressive immigration policy in France and a closing of...

Benhadjar sets record straight on internecine GIA www.algeria-interface.com/new/article.php-article_id=25&lng=e.htm Amnestied Islamist guerrilla, Ali Benhadjar, blames now-dead GIA commander Djamel Zitouni for mid-90s killings. Medea, 27/12/01 – Former Islamist guerrilla...

The Algerian Connection by Jacob A. Mundy, Eat the State, November, 21, 2001 http://eatthestate.org/06-07/AlgerianConnection.htm In a broadcast dating October 25, PBS’s Frontline told the tale of a terrorist...

Barristers beholden to public prosecutors Proposals for legal reform that would make public prosecutors all-powerful have angered barristers. www.algeria-interface.com/new/article.php-article_id=180&lng=e.htm Algiers, 27/07/01 – « After journalists, the regime’s now sorting...

INTERFACE INTERVIEWS Djamil Benrabah, President of the Coordinating Committee for Truth and Justice an Organisation representing the Families of Victims of Terrorism Algeria Interface, 26 April 2000 In...

Algeria A change of French tone? The Economist, october 11th 1997 THE Algerian authorities have spent the past two weeks slapping down United Nations officials and foreign governments...