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UN Human Rights Committee condemns Algeria in Abbassi Madani case
DZA - News | 22 June 2007
Alkarama for Human Rights and Algeria-Watch, 21 June 2007
Alkarama for Human Rights and Algeria-Watch have noted the investigations made by the UN Human Rights Committee during its 89th session in New York, 12-30 March 2007, in the case of the sentencing of Mr. Abbassi Madani to 12 years of criminal imprisonment by the military court of Blida, and his house arrest afterwards.
Algeria: Death of Mounir Hammouche following torture
DZA - News | 29 May 2007
Alkarama for Human Rights has communicated to the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Execution the latest developments on the issue of Mounir Hammouche, who died of the tortures he underwent in police custody. The family of the deceased has been trying since early February 2007 to get a report on the autopsy which would have been conducted by order of the security force. All the letters sent to the public prosecutor of the Bordj Bou Arreridj court and of the Ras El Oued tribunal have gone unanswered.