On 30 June 2008, Alkarama requested the intervention of the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances and the Special Rapporteur on Torture to intervene with the Algerian authorities in his case, a few weeks after Mr Adel Saker was summoned on 26 May 2008 to the Security headquarters of Daira in Tamalous (Skikda Valley). (see communiqué)
However, neither the police in Tamalous who conducted the arrest, nor the prosecutor of the territorial jurisdiction, nor the Department of Public Prosecutions under the authority of which are theoretically placed all officers of the judicial police, have acknowledged the arrest and detention of Mr Adel Saker.
Following the persistence and the many complaints made by his family, the police eventually came to recognize a few months later the arrest of Mr Adel Saker and his of his subsequent hand over to agents of the DRS. His family was only finally able to visit him in prison on 12 April 2009 and learned that he had been tortured during his detention. Meanwhile, he was brought before a judge and charged in a case linked to terrorism.
Reminder:
Adel M. Saker, Neena 1977, has already been arrested in 1994 when he was a minor and held for three years before being released.
A year after his release he was again arrested in 1998 and held for one year, then again in 2001 and held for one year.
Due to consistent persecution by the local DRS, Adel's parents decided in 2003 to send him abroad to complete his Arabic literary studies in Syria.
After a year and a half residency in Syrian, during which he usually pursued his studies, he was arrested in January 2005 by the Syrian intelligence services who told him they were acting at the request of the Algerian security services.
It was under those circumstances that he was returned to Algeria on 26 February 2005, where he was arrested at Algiers airport - Dar Al Beida by the DRS. He was held incommunicado for a full year during which he was very severely tortured for several months, he has been tortured with electricity, the use of cloth and was subjected to serious abuse.
His parents were never able to get news of him throughout this year despite their many dealings with the various institutions. Having alerted the press, several newspapers had reported his arrest.
This is certainly the reason why the 25 February 2006, he was presented by the DRS to the prosecution of Algiers on charges of "membership of a terrorist network" and of having been, in particular "intermediary between Al Qaeda and the Algerian GSPC". This accusation was intended to justify the lengthy period of his secret detention, since he was released the same day.
Persecution has not ceased. He is regularly summoned by local police and detained for long hours at their premises without justification.
On 26 May 2008, he was again summoned to the headquarters of the security services of Daira in Tamalous by a police officer who sent him an invitation to his home through an agent of the public order (PDO).
Mr Adel Saker, as per usual, went to the headquarters on the same day the summons was issued and was accompanied by someone connected to the security services of Daïra in Tamalous. However, as is customary, he has not been released.