Repressions grow in Algeria, is freedom of speech in danger?
The government, say its opponents, is even banning pro-Gaza protests, worried the spirit of the Hirak will rise again. By Ilhem Rachidi, Al-Jazeera, 26 November 2023 Since February...
Catégorie : Human Rights Violations
Abuses and torture in the time of the Algerian Hirak: The Case of Mohamed Abdallah
A. T, Algeria-Watch, 5 January, 2022 On August 21, 2021, the Algerian whistleblower Mohamed Abdallah was transferred from the Zona Franca detention center in Barcelona to the city...
Long Delays Tainting Terrorism Trials
Algeria: Long Delays Tainting Terrorism Trials Courts’ Refusal to Hear Key Witness Violates Due Process Human Rights Watch, June 18, 2012 (Beirut) – The Algerian authorities’ long delays...
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...
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: 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...
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,...
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: 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...
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...
What Happened to Hassan Hattab and Amari Saïfi (alias Abderrezak El Para)?
What Happened to Hassan Hattab and Amari Saïfi (alias Abderrezak El Para)? Algeria Watch, 20 December 2008 french On 1 November 2007, the United Nations Human Rights Committee,...
Algeria’s Belhadj arrested, released
Algeria’s Belhadj arrested, released Sat, 19 May 2007 http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=10263§ionid=351020206 Algerian police detained a leader of the banned Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) on his way to a press conference...
Prison situation in Algeria under scrutiny
Prison situation in Algeria under scrutiny ICPS delegation in Algeria El Khabar, 2 september 2007 In the framework of bilateral cooperation between Algeria and Great Britain in terms...
Smail Mira to El Khabar
Smail Mira to El Khabar “I was in charge of the mission by the military commandment; I’m ready for a trial” El Khabar, 29 July 2007 MP Smail...
Observatory on human rights in Algeria
OBSERVATORY ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN ALGERIA “When the wheel of history turns at last, international opinion is always appalled to find that the supposed lies of the...
Journalist held overnight in police station following publication article about links between security forces and organised crime
Journalist held overnight in police station following publication article about links between security forces and organised crime SOURCE: Reporters sans frontières (RSF), Paris, 14 November 2007 (RSF/IFEX) –...
Comité de soutien au Dr. Salah-Eddine Sidhoum: Communiqué de presse
COMMITTEE FOR THE SUPPORT OF Dr SALAH EDDINE SIDHOUM 21 ter, rue Voltaire , F-75011 Paris To contact the committee, please call : Mr. Ahmed Manai (France) :...
Blogger charged with criminal defamation for criticising official
ALERT – ALGERIA Blogger charged with criminal defamation for criticising official Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRinfo), Cairo, 13 June 2007 (HRinfo/IFEX) – The Algerian government must...
Judges urged to protect independent journalists as government makes no move to decriminalize press offences
Reporters Without Borders Press release Judges urged to protect independent journalists as government makes no move to decriminalize press offences 29 May 2007 Reporters Without Borders voiced outrage...
The court releases Le Figaro correspondent from Algeria
The case to be considered next 2nd May The court releases Le Figaro correspondent from Algeria El Khabar, 29 April 2007 Sidi Mehamed magistrate’s court released yesterday the...
Journalists get three months in prison for accusing prefect of corruption
Reporters Without Borders Press release 26 December 2006 ALGERIA Journalists get three months in prison for accusing prefect of corruption Reporters Without Borders today condemned the three-month prison...
RSF: No-one goes in, no-one comes out!
Reporters Without Borders / Reporters sans frontières NO-ONE GOES IN, NO-ONE COMES OUT! 11 October 2006 Reporters Without Borders said today it was dismayed at the Algerian authorities’...
Sentence called for in Gaddafi libel trial condemned as outrageous
Reporters Without Borders Press release 28 March 2007 ALGERIA Sentence called for in Gaddafi libel trial condemned as outrageous Reporters Without Borders is dismayed by the heavy sentence...
Algeria: Press Freedom at Risk Despite Release of Editor
Algeria: Press Freedom at Risk Despite Release of Editor Human Rights Watch, June 14, 2006 (Brussels, June 14, 2006) – Despite the welcome release from prison expected today...
Algeria amnesties journalists
Algeria amnesties journalists http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=16373 2006-05-03 Bouteflika keeps his major critic Mohamed Benchicou behind bars for his common law offence. ALGIERS – Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika marked Press Freedom...
Journalist pressured by police to reveal sources
ALERT – ALGERIA 3 April 2006 Journalist pressured by police to reveal sources SOURCE: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Brussels (IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an abridged translation...
CPJ urges Algeria’s Bouteflika to repeal decree limiting free expression
Committee to Protect Journalists http://www.cpj.org/protests/06ltrs/mideast/algeria22mar06pl.html CPJ urges Algeria’s Bouteflika to repeal decree limiting free expression March 22, 2006 His Excellency Abdelaziz Bouteflika C/o His Excellency Amine Kherbi Embassy...
Algeria to the Council on Human Rights: The rejection of the recommendations « unfortunate »
Algeria to the Council on Human Rights: The rejection of the recommendations « unfortunate » Alkarama for Human Rights, June 11, 2008 The Human Rights Council adopted the final report...
When the Human Rights Committee’s observations are described by the Algerian authorities as “a great fable, and can be considered as buffoonery”
When the Human Rights Committee’s observations are described by the Algerian authorities as “a great fable, and can be considered as buffoonery” Alkarama for Human Rights, 18 November...
The National Institution for Human Rights (CNCPPDH) in the hot seat
The National Institution for Human Rights (CNCPPDH) in the hot seat Alkarama, 15 May 2009 http://en.alkarama.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=248 Algeria’s national institution for human rights is about to lose its International...
Algeria: Stop the denial, disclose the truth
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Embargoed for 00:01 GMT Monday 30 March 2009 Algeria: Stop the denial, disclose the truth Ten days ahead of Algeria’s presidential elections, Amnesty International...
Union for Mediterranean: a way to bypass human rights?
Union for Mediterranean: a way to bypass human rights? (Brussels, 11 July) The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) initiative, to be endorsed on 13 July, may lead to...
Algeria: The Committee against Torture of the UN lays bare the mechanism of repression
The Committee against Torture of the UN lays bare the mechanism of repression Alkarama for Human Rights, May 19, 2008 Alkarama welcomes the observations of the Committee against...
The situation of human rights will be examined by the Human Rights Council
The situation of human rights will be examined by the Human Rights Council Alkarama for Human Rights, March 10, 2008 The Council on Human Rights meets on April...
Observations on the periodic report to the Human Rights Committee
Observations on the periodic report to the Human Rights Committee Alkarama for Human Rights and Algeria-Watch, 23 July 2007 Algeria was required by the Human Rights Committee to...
The Human Rights Committee called upon to intervene on behalf of Malik Medjnoun
The Human Rights Committee called upon to intervene on behalf of Malik Medjnoun Alkarama for Human Rights, 15 February 2009 http://en.alkarama.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=189 Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the...
