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Algeria dissolves human rights NGO LADDH

Algeria has dissolved human rights NGO LADDH whom it accused of cooperation with international rights groups at a context where the military regime intensifies its crackdown on dissident voices. The NGO said its only crime was defending human rights in a country whose jails are full of civil society activists and journalists. Following a suit […]

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Algeria: Local NGOs call on authorities to end repression & rights violations

A group of Algerian human rights organizations and militants have called on the Algerian authorities to put an end to the new wave of cracking down and violations of the constitutional rights to freedom of speech, assembly and association. In their joint statement released lately, they called for the immediate liberation of prisoners of conscience, […]

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Algerian Pupils Shivering from Cold in their Oil & Gas Producing Country

Algeria, the first African producer of natural gas and member of OPEC cartel, is still unable, after 50 years of independence, to provide heating to its pupils in schools. The Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH) denounced the alarming situation of thousands of pupils shivering from cold in their classroom while their […]

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HRW Urges Algeria to Halt Summary Deportations of Sub-Saharans

International rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch, called on Algeria to honor its commitments under the 1951 Geneva convention and to bring to a halt all mass deportations of Sub Sharan migrants. The call was expressed in a statement released Friday after Algerian authorities rounded up more than 1400 sub-Saharan migrants in Algiers and deported them […]

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Algeria: harassment of human rights activists continues

Algerian human rights activist, Zoulikha Belarbi, has been arrested by local police at Tlemcen, northwest of Algeria. No clear reason for her arrest has been communicated. The information was confirmed by lawyer and President of the Algerian human rights league (LADDH,) Salah Dabouz. “Human rights activists working on the ground have been, for some weeks, […]