Category: Algeria
Activists denounce death sentences handed by Algeria to cover killing of Jamal Ben Smail
Algeria has handed 49 death sentences to people convicted of killing Jamal Ben Smail in a town in the Kabylie region, in a verdict denounced ... Read More
Iran confirms Algeria wants its drones
A top Iranian official said his country has received drone orders from 22 countries including Algeria, confirming earlier reports that Algeria and the Polisario were ... Read More
UPR: 15 NGOs express serious concerns over gross human rights abuses in Algeria
Fifteen NGOs have expressed serious concerns over the gross violations of human rights in Algeria and denounced the responsibility of the Algerian army in the ... Read More
US urges Algeria to halt using terrorism charges to quell peaceful dissent
The US delegation to the UN Human Rights Council called on Algeria to abrogate the amendments it brought to its penal code in 2021 and ... Read More
NGO alerts UN on forced disappearance of Algerian Hirak activist
Geneva-based non-governmental organization, Alkarama, has addressed a correspondence to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, requesting its intervention with the Algerian ... Read More
Algeria abandons Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Niger border desert
Algeria has forced over 60 refugees from Syria and Palestine from Oran to the desert border of Niger where they were abandoned to their fate, ... Read More
Algeria: US-based NGos decry alarming attacks on press freedom
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the Washington-based rights group the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) have condemned the Algerian authorities’ continuing ... Read More
Geneva-based NGO denounces Algeria’s reprisals against relatives of political dissidents
A Geneva-based non-governmental organization has denounced before the United Nations the acts of reprisals carried out by Algeria against the relatives of political dissidents settled ... Read More
Spanish Police Arrest 2 Algerians for illegal migrants’ trafficking
The Spanish national police announced on Monday the arrest of two Algerian nationals in Mallorca (Balearic Islands), accused of transporting illegal migrants to the Spanish ... Read More
UN: Tragedy of Child Soldiers in Tindouf Camps Denounced in New York
The tragedy of children turned into soldiers by the separatist militia of the "polisario" with the blessing and support of the host country, Algeria, in ... Read More