Articles for Algeria

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

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

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

Alkarama for Human Rights, June 12, 2008

12 Jun 2008

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

Algeria : Universal Periodic Review before the Human Rights Council on 14 April 2008

Alkarama for Human Rights, April 12, 2008

12 Apr 2008

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.

Algeria

Contribution in the context of the Universal Periodic Review
Alkarama for Human Rights, Nov. 20, 2007

10 Mar 2008

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

AlKarama for Human Rights, February 27, 2008

27 Feb 2008

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

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 89^th 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

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