Asmaa Lamrabet

Algerian Activist Gets One Year Sentence for Criticizing Government on Facebook

Amazigh activist Salim Yezza received a one year suspended sentence after he criticized on Facebook the Algerian government’s treatment of minorities. Yezza criticized the authorities’ discriminatory policy against the Mozabites, an Amazigh or Berber – ethnic minority in the Ghardaia region. The France-based activist was arrested on July 14 at the Biskra airport as he […]

Algeria: “No to religious extremism in our universities,” PM Sellal

Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal has urged educational institutions to fight extremism saying“no to religious extremism in our universities.” At a meeting with the Dean of the Said Hamdine Faculty of Law in Algiers and the Minister of Higher Education and scientific research Tahar Hadjar, the Prime Minister called universitystudents to stay away from extremism as he reminded them that “our religion is Islam but we are […]

Polisario’s African Union Membership, an ‘Anomaly’ at ‘Odds with International Law’- FM

The membership of the Algerian-backed separatist entity, SADR, in the African Union is an “anomaly” that goes against the international law, said Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita. Bourita told the French radio channel, RFI, that two thirds of African countries do not recognize the Algerian-sponsored separatist entity. He recalled that during the AU’s July summit […]