Articles for Algeria

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Algeria: Torture victim kidnapped again

Othmane Abdellahoum was kidnapped by security officers in Ain Al Hadjel, Wilaya de Msila, after leaving his home at around 7pm on 16 October 2010. He is nowhere to be found.

On 5 November 2010 Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances asking for them to intervene with Algerian authorities so that Mr Abdellahoum can be released or placed under legal protection.

Mr Abdellahoum, 32, is a married father of two from Ain Al Hadjel in Wilaya de Msila.

08 Nov 2010
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Algeria: Case of Executed Brothers Sent to Human Rights Committee

On 19 April 1997 at 6am, security forces raided the Fedsi family home and arrested Nasreddine Fesdsi. Fifteen minutes later, at a nearby coffee shop, they arrested his brother Massaoud Fedsi. Both men were taken to a nearby forest and murdered.

On 1 July 2010, Alkarama contacted the Human Rights Committee regarding the murder of the Fedsi brothers by the Algerian authorities. The Fedsi family contacted the authorities on various occasions, however without results since the promulgation on February 2006 of the "Charter for Peace and Reconciliation".

13 Jul 2010
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Algeria: After 12 Years Imprisonment, Malik Medjnoun Begins Hunger Strike

On 25 June 1998, Lounès Matoub, one of Algeria's most famous singers was shot dead by a group of unidentified gunmen. Malik Medjnoune, one of those accused of complicity in Matoub's murder, has been in custody since September 1999 without trial. He has always continued to deny any involvement in the murder.
25 Jun 2010
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Algeria: Medjnoun Malik begins hunger strike in hopes of being tried after 10 years preventative detention

After more than 10 years since his abduction by Algerian secret services from the Department of Research and Security (DRS), Malik Medjoun remains abducted awaiting trial. On 25 February 2010, he began an indefinite hunger strike in order that he finally be brought to justice.

Malik Medjnoun is accused of involvement in the June 1998 assassination of Matoub Lounes, which he has always denied. He was abducted near his home on 28 September 1999 by the DRS and held incommunicado at DRS barracks near "Antar", Ben Aknoun (Algiers).

26 Feb 2010
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Algeria: Elected member of the FIS - arrested, crucified and disappeared - Alkarama sends Lakhdar Bouzania's case to the Human Rights Committee

Alkarama was mandated to submit a complaint to the Human Rights Committee regarding the disappearance of Mr Lakhdar Bouzenia. Arrested 24 May 1993, Mr Bouzenia was detained incommunicado and severely tortured, including being "crucified", before disappearing during his transfer to Constantine prison a few months after his arrest.

Lakhdar Bouzenia, aged 38 at the time, was a professor of Arabic literature at the Lycée Sidi Abdelaziz in the governorate of Jijel.

11 Jan 2010
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Algeria: More than 100 cases of enforced disappearance from Jijel governorate submitted to the UN

Disgruntled by the Algerian authorities' lack of response to demands for truth and justice in the wake of the disappearances of their loved ones, the families of the missing persons from Jijel governorate (300km east of Algiers) continue to call upon the United Nations for their help.
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Today, the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) was once agai

31 Dec 2009
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Algeria: Disappearances of Tahar and Bachir Bourefis put forward to the HRC

Alkarama has been mandated to submit a complaint to the Human Rights Committee concerning the disappearances of Tahar and his eldest son Bashir Bourefis, arrested in 1996 in the province of Jijel and gone missing ever since.

Their arrests and disappearances took place in the aftermath of an armed conflict caused by the State coup during January 1992, which saw the widespread and systematic practice of arbitrary arrests and disappearances.

20 Nov 2009
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Algeria: Alkarama’s follow-up report to the Committee against Torture

In the context of four recommendations made by the Committee against Torture (CAT), Alkarama submitted a follow-up report to the CAT signaling the fact that these recommendations had yet not been put into place.
02 Nov 2009
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Algeria : The Human Rights Committee ask for a reply to their final observations

The Special Rapporteur for the follow-up of final observations to the Human Rights Committee sent a letter on 27 August 2009 to the permanent representative of Algeria to the United Nations reminding him that in the framework of the Committee‘s final observations, the State of Algeria has not submitted any information for three of of the observations during t
02 Nov 2009
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Algeria: Malik Medjnoune, arbitrarily detained for 10 years, still no trial

Today, 28 September 2009, 10 years have passed since the day Malik Medjnoune was abducted near his home in Tizi-Ouzou by the Algerian secret services of the Department of Intelligence and Security (DRS).
28 Sep 2009
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