Articles for Algeria

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Algeria: Mounir Hammouche’s death under tortured examined by the UN

Alkarama submitted on 12 January 2009 an individual communication to the Committee against torture asking it to examine the case of Mounir Hammouche, arrested by members of the intelligence services (DRS) on 23 December 2006, detained incommunicado and deceased due to torture a few days later.

Alkarama had already seized on 18 January 2007 this same case to the UN Special Rapporteurs on extra-judicial executions; on torture; and on the promotion and prote

15 Jan 2009
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Algeria : Confirmation of Adel Saker’s enforced disappearance

Alkarama submitted on 6 January 2009 a letter to the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and to the Special Rapporteur on Torture to confirm Mr Adel Saker's arrest by agents of the state, and to ask them to urgently contact the Algerian authorities.

Alkarama had contacted these two UN organs on 30 June 2008, a few weeks after Mr Saker was summoned on 26 May 2008 to appear at the headquarters of the Security Services of the District of Tamalous (Wilaya (canton) of Skikda), to which he responded.

08 Jan 2009
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Algeria : 175 cases of enforced disappearances in the Jijel region between 1993 to 1997

As announced following our meeting in November 2008 with the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Alkarama submitted a list of 175 cases of enforced disappearances which took place during the period from 1993 to 1996 in the Jijel region (300 km to the east of Algiers) to the Working Group.

These cases were documented by the Association for the families of the disappeared of the Jijel region, represented by Mr Moussa Bourefis, hims

02 Jan 2009
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Algeria: Mr Moussa Bourefis meets the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances

On 28 November 2008, Moussa Bourefis, the son and brother of two persons disappeared in Algeria, met with the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances at Palais Wilson in Geneva, alongside representatives from Alkarama and Algeria Watch.

Moussa Bourefis, a member of the organising committee of the Association of Families of the Disappeared in Jijel, informed the Working Group of some of the specifics of the issue of enforced disappearance in the Jijel region.

03 Dec 2008
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Algeria: When the Human Rights Committee’s observations are described by the Algerian authorities as “a great fable, and can be considered as buffoonery”

At the end of the examination of Algeria’s third periodic report during the 91st session of the United Nations Human Rights Committee held in Geneva from 15 October to 2 November 2007, the Committee asked the Algerian authorities to provide information in connection with some of its recommendations within one year.

Within the framework of its activities regarding the follow-up of the concluding observations of the Human Rights Committee, Alkarama has made a submission to the UN body in order to draw its attention to the shortcomings and failures of

18 Nov 2008
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Algeria: enforced disappearance of Adel Saker

Alkarama wrote on June 30, 2008 a communication to the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) and the Special Rapporteur on Torture to ask them to intervene urgently with the Algerian authorities in the case of Mr. Adel Saker, a victim of enforced disappearance since May 26, 2008.

Mr. Saker Adel, born on January 28, 1977, had already been arrested in 1994 when he was a minor and held for three years before being released.

02 Jul 2008
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Algeria: Alkarama submits new cases of enforced disappearances at the United Nations

Alkarama for Human Rights, June 12, 2008
12 Jun 2008
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Algeria: 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 Torture published on May 16, 2008. They largely reflect its own concerns about the situation of human rights in Algeria.
19 May 2008
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Algeria : Universal Periodic Review before the Human Rights Council on 14 April 2008

Alkarama for Human Rights, April 12, 2008
12 Apr 2008
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Algeria: 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 15, 2008 to conduct the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on Algeria. Alkarama presented within this framework a contribution on Nov. 20, 2007.
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Contribution in the context of the Universal Periodic Review
Alkarama for Human Rights, Nov. 20, 2007
10 Mar 2008
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