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".