Farida Ouaghlissi, a 49-year-old human rights Algerian activist and a wife of one of the victims of disappearance, was arrested on 3 December at Algiers airport where she was waiting to a take a flight to Geneva in order to participate in the 2012 Alkarama Award ceremony. Worried about these reprisals by the Algerian authorities to intimidate human rights defenders, Alkarama has submitted her case to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders.

A thirty-three year old Algerian man is dead due to police brutality...This incident would have gone unnoticed had it been committed inside police station walls, in a prison, and out of the public eye. However, this thirty-three year old Algerian man died in front of his parents and neighbors, and even strangers in the district who were moved by the screams and tears. According to the police and the authorities, he was a drug dealer and simply died from an overdose. His parents and the bereaved city of Mascara describe him as young, full of hope, and without a criminal record. Behind the conflicting descriptions, a sad reality: Ahmed Sahnoun was born in a country where serious violations of human rights are considered "simple blunders" in the eyes of Farouk Ksentini, president of the National Consultative Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (National Human Rights Institution).

Mr Zoubir Kaf, a 70 year old father of four left his family home in Laghouat on the 17th of July 2011 at 6.30am and has not been seen since.

That day he was meant to be meeting some friends, several of whom tried to reach him at his family home when they noticed that he did not turn up. The following day, the 18th of July, seeing that her husband had not returned, his wife began asking questions at the local station and the police station of the Benaceur-Benchohra area (Laghouat).