Algeria

On November 7, 2024, Alkarama submitted the case of Mr. Tidjani AMRI, an investigative journalist, to the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC). Mr. AMRI was abducted on 27 May 2019, in Tébessa and taken to the Ben-Aknoun detention center, where he was tortured until 4 June 2019, by the military. 

In the run-up to the Algerian presidential elections on 7 September 2024, Algeria is experiencing a period of particularly severe repression, marked by a wave of arbitrary arrests of political opponents, pro-democracy activists, journalists, academics and human rights defenders.

This repression, orchestrated by the authorities, constitutes a flagrant violation of Algeria's international human rights obligations, particularly under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

Alkarama recently submitted a new communication to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, denouncing the refusal of the Algerian authorities to intervene to protect Sahrawi victims of serious violations committed by Polisario agents in the camps. This time, it concerns Mr Mohamed Salem Malainine Souid, a young Sahrawi of Spanish nationality who was disappeared and tortured by the Polisario with the obvious connivance of the Algerian authorities.