Articles for Algeria

On 28 October 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence (SR Truth) to inform him about the judicial harassment targeting the relatives of Tahar and Bachir Bo

On 9 October 2015, Alkarama submitted to the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism (SR TERROR), a communication calling him to intervene in the case of Ali Attar, arbitrarily detained since his arrest without judicial warrant in February 2015. For the first 12 days of his arrest, Ali was a victim of torture and ill-treatment while detained incommunicado.

On 5 October 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders (HRD), Michel Forst, calling on him to intervene in the case of journalist and human rights defender, Hassan Bouras, arrested without judicial warrant in early October 2015 and currently detained in El Bayadh prison.

On Monday 7 September 2015, Djameleddine Laskri entered its 24th year of arbitrary detention.

On 5 August 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) and the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence (SRTruth) concerning the cases of Mahmoud Grida and Mohamed Boughedda, who both went missing following their respective arrests in the north-eastern

In February 2015, the family of Tewfik Djaou, disappeared since his abduction in 1997 in Constantine by agents of the Department of Intelligence and Security (DRS), asked Alkarama to address the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRCtee) with a complaint regarding the disappearance of their son, in order to formally recognise the direct responsibility of the Algerian authorities and to obtain compensation.

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.

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.

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.

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.