Articles for Algeria

To date, his family has not received justice from the Algerian authorities and has been forced to address the issue to international mechanisms. Alkarama lodged a complaint on 9 May 2012 to the Human Rights Committee.

He was released on probation and was summoned to appear the next 30 May before the correctional court of Algiers to be sentenced.

Tarek Mameri was arrested on 1 May at 9:00 p.m. in the middle of Algiers by several plainclothes agents presenting themselves as police officers.

Hachemi Boukhalfa was arrested arbitrarily on 9 January 2011 by the agents of the DRS and throughout a week was submitted to grave torture before being released. To this day, the Algerian judicial system has not taken up his case and he has been obliged to turn to UN authorities.

The 40-year-old lives in Ouargla where he sells cars.

Despite his refusal to be sent back to Algeria, where he feared being the object of further persecution and ill treatment, he was finally released by the United States to the Algerian authorities on 19 July 2010.

Update: Nassima Guettal was released on 25 November 2011 at 13:00

Nassima Guettal, a human rights activist and a founding member of the National Front for Change (FCN), was arrested this morning by the police. She had undertaken a hunger strike in Algiers in the Place 1st May.

M. Abdelkader HAMDAOUI Abdelkader, 24, was abducted on 27 September 2011 at 15:00 at the home of his grandmother in Rouissat, in the state of Ouargla, by several agents in civilian dress that presented themselves as the police but provided no identification. They gave no motive for the arrest and did not bring with them an arrest warrant.