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.

Accused without evidence of killing the singer Lounès Matoub, Malik Medjnoune has been arbitrarily detained since 1999 and still has not been tried to date. Alkarama has addressed a letter to the Public Prosecutor of Tizi-Ouzou reminding him of his obligations as the highest authority of the Court.

For more than 12 years, Malik Medjnoune, currently 38 years old, has been kept in provisional detention awaiting his trial.

On 5 November 2010 Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances asking for them to intervene with Algerian authorities so that Mr Abdellahoum can be released or placed under legal protection.

Mr Abdellahoum, 32, is a married father of two from Ain Al Hadjel in Wilaya de Msila.

The day after his arrest, his mother contacted the local police to find out where he was being held. The authorities denied having any knowledge his arrest.

His mother then filed a complaint with the Prosecutor General of Msila, who told her that the police would soon be contacting her. Since then, she has made daily visits to the Ain Al Hadjel police station, however the officers refuse to open an investigation.

Mr Abdellahoum was first abducted in February 2007 and secretly detained for two weeks before appearing in front of a court in Msila. During his detention, he was subject to severe torture, for which he was hospitalized at one point.

What was acquitted and released in November 2007.

Since his release, Mr Abdellahoum and his family have been continually persecuted. On several different occasions, military officers made visits to their family home.

In January 2008, a few weeks after his release, he and his brothers were interrogated by military officers.

Mr Abdellahoum's mother fears that her son's abduction is related to the persecutions his family has been going through since 2008. She also fears he will be tortured again.

Mr Abdellahoum's current secret detention is particularly alarming; he has been held in police custody longer than the legal time period and has still not been referred to a judge.