Articles for Algeria

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Algeria: the Case of the Abduction of Achour Berkaoui in front of the Presidential Palace of El Mouradia before the UN Committee of Human Rights

In February 2015, the family of Achour Berkaoui, who went missing after his abduction by members of the Algerian security services in the centre of Algiers in November 1994, mandated Alkarama to submit a complaint to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRCtee), concerning the enforced disappearance of their relative so the direct involvement of the Algerian authorities be officially recognised and in the hope to obtain redress as provided by international law.

15 Jun 2015
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Algeria: Reprisals against Families Which Lodged Complaints with the Human Rights Committee

On 26 March 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRCtee) regarding the retaliatory measures taken by the Algerian authorities against some families from the region of Jijel who had sent individual complaints to the Committee following the enforced disappearance or summary execution of their relatives in the 1990s.

26 Mar 2015
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Algeria: Abdellah Benaoum Condemned for Defending the Rights of Students

Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression regarding the arbitrary arrest of Abdullah Benaoum, prosecuted and brought before the Relizane Court after his attempt to denounce the discriminatory measures taken by the Chancellor of the University of Relizane against some Law students.

03 Dec 2014
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Algeria: Condemned by UN Human Rights Committee After Summary Executions of FEDSI Brothers by the Head of Taher’s Daïra (Jijel)

During its 111th session, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) has established the Algerian authorities' responsibility in the murder of the FEDSI brothers on 19 April 1997 in the village of Tellata near Taher in the province of Jijel. The principal perpatrator of their summary execution is none other than the head of the Daira (district) of Taher, Fourar Meheni, accompanied by the head of the local police (Dark al Watani) and the Police Commissioner of Taher.

10 Oct 2014
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Algeria: Algiers Schoolboy Missing for 17 Years

At around 2.20am on the 28th of February 1996, Mohamed Lamine Nateche, a 16-year-old boy, was abducted by agents from the police station near his grandparents' home in Hussein Dey, in the suburbs of Algiers. He often spent the night there as the house was close to his school. Thereafter, he was taken to Bourouba police station.

« Bring us back his uncle and we'll give you back your son »

05 Jul 2013
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National Coordination of Families of the Disappeared in Algeria received at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva

On 1 July 2013, representatives from the National Coordination of Families of the Disappeared in Algeria (CNFD) and from Alkarama met with the Working Group on Enforced Disappearances and members of the Special Rapporteur on the Promotion of Truth's office at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) headquarters in Geneva.
 
 
This meeting was an opportunity for the CNFD to raise awareness among UN experts of the violence used to repress the demonstration organised in Constantine on the 27th of July 2013,
02 Jul 2013
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Algeria: One Disappearance, Generations of Torture

Today, on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the Coordination nationale des familles de disparus (CNFD - National Coordination of the Families of the Disappeared in Algeria (CNFD) has organized a conference in Algiers to raise public awareness about the necessity for the families of the disappeared to be recogni
26 Jun 2013
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Algeria: Human Rights Activist from M'sila Threatened by the DRS

On 16 June, Algerian human rights activist Smail Ghellab was threatened by a local agent from the Intelligence and Security Department (DRS).
18 Jun 2013
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Algeria: 18 years after her disappearance, where is Dhahbia Bouaicha?

Today, 11 June 2013, marks the anniversary of Dhahbia Bouaicha's disappearance. Exactly 18 years ago, this 51 year-old mother was abducted by military officers at her sister's house, in Setif, East Algeria. Since this day, her children remain unaware of her whereabouts.
Dhahbia Bouaicha used to live in Rafsa, Salah Bey, in Setif wilaya.
11 Jun 2013
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Algeria : Blatant persecution of Human Rights Defender Yahia Bounouar

Yahia Bounouar, free-lance journalist and President of the Algerian Observatory for Human Rights (OADH) has been harassed and persecuted by the Algerian security services for several months. On 23 May 2013, he was arrested at Constantine airport where the border police told him that "there was on a warning list at the level of all police stations nationwide".
28 May 2013
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