Algeria-Watch

Algerian amnesty draws in Islamists Sunday 20 August 2006, 22:00 Makka Time, 19:00 GMT http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F8368831-99C4-4758-9E77-ED8F2EBEDA07.htm Between 250 and 300 Islamist fighters have so far surrendered under an ongoing...

Harkat fears torture, death if deported to Algeria CTV.ca News Staff, Jul. 10, 2006 http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/ 20060710/harkat_presser_060710/20060710?hub=Canada%3E Mohamed Harkat, who was held in jail for more than three years...

Criticized for human rights and democracy status Algeria will not take part in G 8 summit El Khabar, 12 July 2006 Well informed diplomatic sources have revealed that...

Amnesty accuses Algeria of torture By Roula Khalaf and Heba Saleh, Financial Times, July 10 2006 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/d8d39978-0f69-11db-ad3d-0000779e2340.html Amnesty International has accused Algeria’s secretive military security of torture and...

Bouteflika’s visit to Great Britain Four cooperation agreements signed El Khabar, 12 July 2006 The President of Republic, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, has insisted on the importance of the visit...

Security Council schedules emergency debate on Israeli offensive in Gaza By ASSOCIATED PRESS, June 30, 2006 UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The U.N. Security Council scheduled an emergency debate...

CIA sent me to be tortured in Afghan prison, says Algerian By Jerome Taylor, The Independent, 08 July 2006 Testimony by an Algerian national caught up in the...

Many Algerians Are Not Reconciled by Amnesty Law Algeria’ s policies after civil war have been offered as a pattern for Iraq, but Algeria’ s plan is unpopular,...

Algerian Tells of Dark Term in U.S. Hands By CRAIG S. SMITH and SOUAD MEKHENNET, The New York Times July 7, 2006 ALGIERS — Two years ago, a...

National reconciliation The deadline is not to be extended now El Khabar, 10 septembre 2006 An official source revealed to El Khabar that the National Commission in charge...

Terror suspect deported to Algeria Press Association, Saturday June 17, 2006 8:03 PM A former « Belmarsh detainee » described as a senior member of a terrorist group linked with...

To boost security cooperation Bush assistant in Algiers El Khabar, june 19, 2006 Frances Fragos Townsend, the assistant to president Bush for home land security and counter terrorism...

Algerian under a death sentence fights deportation By Robert Fisk -15 March 2006, http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article351349.ece http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12353.htm Ahmed Zaoui, Algerian cleric and university professor, member of the Algerian Front Islamique...

Bosnia admits to handing terror suspects over to United States Turkish Weekly, 15 June 2006 Bosnia has admitted that it handed over six terror suspects of Algerian origin...

Britain deports two Algerian detainees Giles Tremlett, The Guardian, June 19, 2006 Britain deported a second former Belmarsh detainee to Algeria over the weekend, despite protests that both...

ALGERIA Algeria, Britain sign co-operation deals http://www.businessinafrica.net/news/north_africa/804766.htm, 09 Jun 2006 Algiers – Algeria and Britain signed four agreements, including an extradition treaty, on Thursday in Algiers during a...

French plot to kidnap Abu Hamza and save the World Cup By Sean O’Neill and Daniel McGrory in an extract from their new book, Times Online, May, 31,...

Deportation June 16, 2006 Terror suspect deported voluntarily Press Association, Friday June 16, 2006 An Algerian man suspected of being an international terrorist was deported from Britain today....

NATO mulls Mideast military academy By ASSOCIATED PRESS, BRUSSELS, The Jerusalem Post, June 7, 2006 NATO defense ministers this week will discuss proposals for the creation of an...

This will lead to violence The theatrical nature of recent anti-terror raids suggests a show is being put on to keep us fearful Faisal Bodi, The Guardian, June...

Bouteflika accepts Ouyahia’s resignation Belkhadem assigned to form a new government El Khabar, 25 May 2006 The president of the republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika has received the chief of...

Britain to ask European court for rights review By Kate Holton, http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=751872006, May 20, 2006 LONDON (Reuters) – The government is to ask the European Court of Human...

Algeria: Cabinet reshuffle mere formality http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat= Politics&loid=8.0.303228733&par=0 Algiers, 26 May (AKI) – The forced resignation this week of Algerian Prime Minister Ahmad Ouyahia and his replacement with Abdelaziz...

Algerian leader replaces PM with ally By Heba Saleh in Cairo, Financial Times, May 25 2006 http://news.ft.com/cms/s/1444d9f2-ec12-11da-b3e2-0000779e2340.html Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the Algerian leader, has appointed his close ally, Abdelaziz...

Condemning injustice and claiming pay raise 15000 workers march as a protestation in Rouiba El Khabar, 25 may 2006 The syndicate branches of Rouiba made in practice their...

Algerian President Attacks French « Genocide » By EURSOC Three, 20 April, 2006, http://eursoc.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/985/ Algerian_President_Attacks_French__Genocide_.html Algeria’s president Abdelaziz Bouteflika has said that French colonisation of his country was a form...

Algeria’s new PM to revise constitution, hike pay Ouyahia resigns after his intransigence in face of repeated strikes by teachers, vets, doctors, workers. May 25, 2006, http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=16565=16565&format=0 ALGIERS...

The betrayal of a forgotten people John Hilary, The Guardian, May 17, 2006 02:55 PM http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/john_hilary/2006/05/ stinking_rotten_fish.html Due east of the Canaries, there is a people for whom...

Algeria to settle Paris Club debt BBC, 11 May 2006 Algeria is to pay back all of the $8bn (£4.3bn) debt it owes to the Paris Club group...

Crackdown on sham marriages is unfair to migrants, says judge · Couples in CofE weddings exempt from rules · High court rules scheme was discriminatory Alan Travis, home...

Amnesia is the price of Algerian peace and reconciliation By Kamel Labidi,The Daily Star, Libanon, April 01, 2006 http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id= 5&article_id=23419# Algerian President Abdel-Aziz Bouteflika’s decree implementing the Charter...

Algeria and the Complexity of its Energy Revenues Samir Sobh Al-Hayat – 18/04/06, http://english.daralhayat.com/ business/04-2006/Article-20060418-ad5a13d5- c0a8-10ed-01d1-b9b714d95dc7/story.html It is no accident that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, seizing the opportunity of...

Algerian leader in Paris for check-up Al-Jazeera, 20 April 2006 The Algerian president has undergone medical checks at a top French military hospital. After the defence and foreign...

Islamist slams Algeria’s reconciliation plan IOL, 3.4.06 Paris – An Algerian government plan to reconcile the nation after years of conflict is unconstitutional and peace can only come...

In Europe’s terror fight, the rights issue By Katrin Bennhold, International Herald Tribune, April 14, 2006 LONDON As his wristwatch edges toward 3:26 p.m., the young Algerian moves...