Articles for Algeria

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Algeria: Malik Medjnoun, detained since 9 years without trial, on indefinite hunger strike.

AlKarama for Human Rights, February 27, 2008
27 Feb 2008
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Algeria: 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 issue its third periodic report in June 2000. It did not do so, however, until 22 September 2006, six years later. The period taken into account in our observations thus stretches from 1998 until today.

The human rights situation has changed a lot over this period.

10 Aug 2007
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UN Human Rights Committee condemns Algeria in Abbassi Madani case

Alkarama for Human Rights and Algeria-Watch, 21 June 2007

Alkarama for Human Rights and Algeria-Watch have noted the investigations made by the UN Human Rights Committee during its 89th session in New York, 12-30 March 2007, in the case of the sentencing of Mr. Abbassi Madani to 12 years of criminal imprisonment by the military court of Blida, and his house arrest afterwards.

22 Jun 2007
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Algeria: Death of Mounir Hammouche following torture

Alkarama for Human Rights has communicated to the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Execution the latest developments on the issue of Mounir Hammouche, who died of the tortures he underwent in police custody.  The family of the deceased has been trying since early February 2007 to get a report on the autopsy which would have been conducted by order of the security force.  All the letters sent to the public prosecutor of the Bordj Bou Arreridj court and of the Ras El Oued tribunal have gone unanswered.

Alkarama for Human Rights urges the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudic

29 May 2007
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