Salah Dabouz, lawyer and human rights activist, was stabbed by hooded strangers, yesterday early in the evening in Ghardaia, his friend Kacem Soufghalem told the press. His supporters and family members have
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‘Algerie Debout’, a popular pro-democracy Facebook group had one of its admins arrested by the Algerian authorities. This follows an intensifying crackdown on voices that criticise the current army chief, Ahmed Gaid-Salah.
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The Algerian Ministry of Justice reacted, on Saturday (August 31st), to the charge made by the National Committee for the Release of Detainees (CNLD) concerning the conditions of detention of Tizi-Ouzou APW
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I had the pleasure of picking Emily Copple’s brain some time ago. She was heading up the Nursing Activity team in Ethiopia for Medecins Sans Frontieres when we spoke, but she’s currently
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While the Algerian people have been demonstrating peacefully for nearly five months, arbitrary arrests and beatings have increased. Kader Attia, Etienne Balibar, Juliette Binoche, Saïd Bouamama, Souad Massi and a number of
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Brahime Lalami, a blogger and activists, is reported to have been stabbed by undercover police officers. Last Wednesday, while in Oran, he was the victim of an “aggression“. A photo published on
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Considering that the Chinese state deems Islam a mental illness, it might come as a surprise that some muslim countries would support the incarceration and torture of other muslims, but no, thirty-seven
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Shocking footage recorded by political opponent Rachid Nekkaz from his office’s balcony shows serious human rights violations perpetrated by police officers. Only in the capital Algiers, there are currently more than 50
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Political activist and human rights defender Dr. Kameleddine Fekhar died Tuesday in Blida hospital (Algeria), said his lawyer, Salah Dabouz. “I received information. Dr. Kameleddine Fekhar died this morning at the Frantz
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Hadj Ghermoul (pictured right), a young man from the region of Mascara (western Algeria), an activist of the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH) and a member of the
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