Hassan Bouras was released on 18 January 2016 after spending the last three months in pretrial detention in El Bayadh prison in Western Algeria. This 48-year-old journalist and human rights defender was arrested at his home in El Bayadh on 2 October. His release follows the decision of the investigating judge to refer his case to the Criminal Court of El Bayadh. Bouras is nevertheless still accused of insulting the President and the military institution.

On 5 November 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-repetition (SR Truth) to inform him that the relatives of Nasreddine and Messaoud Fedsi − both arrested and summarily executed by the Taher police on 19 April 1997 – continue to face the silence of the Algerian judicial authorities.

At its last session, held from 27 July to 14 August 2015, the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) issued its findings on the complaint submitted by Alkarama relating to acts of torture inflicted on Hashemi Boukhalfa by the Department of Intelligence and Security Services (DRS) in 2011.

On 28 October 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence (SR Truth) to inform him about the judicial harassment targeting the relatives of Tahar and Bachir Bourefis, missing for nearly 20 years in the town of Jijel in northeast Algeria. Through this action, Alkarama also urges the Rapporteur to call on the Algerian authorities to respect their international obligations by opening impartial and independent investigations to establish the fate of those missing. In early October, Tahar's wife and Bachir's mother died without getting to know the truth about her relatives.