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Algeria: Torture and Arbitrary Detention of Member of the Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights for over 8 Months
DZA - News | 12 October 2015
On 9 October 2015, Alkarama submitted to the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism (SR TERROR), a communication calling him to intervene in the case of Ali Attar, arbitrarily detained since his arrest without judicial warrant in February 2015. For the first 12 days of his arrest, Ali was a victim of torture and ill-treatment while detained incommunicado. He is now being held at the prison of El Harrache, pending a trial whose date has not yet been set.
Algeria: Journalist and Board Member of the Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights on Hunger Strike to Protest Arbitrary Detention
DZA - News | 06 October 2015
On 5 October 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders (HRD), Michel Forst, calling on him to intervene in the case of journalist and human rights defender, Hassan Bouras, arrested without judicial warrant in early October 2015 and currently detained in El Bayadh prison.
Algeria: Djameleddine Laskri entering its 24th Year of Arbitrary Detention
DZA - News | 07 September 2015
On Monday 7 September 2015, Djameleddine Laskri entered its 24th year of arbitrary detention. On 20 August 2015, Alkarama sent the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) a follow-up communication regarding the current situation of Djameleddine Laskri, a 55-year-old architect who spent the last 23 years in prison after having been sentenced to death in the case of "the Algiers airport". This followed a procedure where the defendant's most basic rights to a fair trial were violated by the Special Court of Algiers, at that time headed by judge Bouhlass Said, who was later promoted to President of the Court of Algiers.
Algeria: The Cases of Mahmoud Grida and Mohamed Boughedda Disappeared since their Arrests by Government Forces in the mid-1990s
DZA - News | 19 August 2015
On 5 August 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) and the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence (SRTruth) concerning the cases of Mahmoud Grida and Mohamed Boughedda, who both went missing following their respective arrests in the north-eastern town of Jijel in 1994 and 1997.
Algeria: The Case of Tewfik Djaou's Abduction from his Jewellery Shop by the Security Services Now before the UN Human Rights Committee
DZA - News | 03 August 2015
In February 2015, the family of Tewfik Djaou, disappeared since his abduction in 1997 in Constantine by agents of the Department of Intelligence and Security (DRS), asked Alkarama to address the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRCtee) with a complaint regarding the disappearance of their son, in order to formally recognise the direct responsibility of the Algerian authorities and to obtain compensation.