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Algeria: the Case of the Abduction of Achour Berkaoui in front of the Presidential Palace of El Mouradia before the UN Committee of Human Rights

DZA - News | 15 June 2015

In February 2015, the family of Achour Berkaoui, who went missing after his abduction by members of the Algerian security services in the centre of Algiers in November 1994, mandated Alkarama to submit a complaint to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRCtee), concerning the enforced disappearance of their relative so the direct involvement of the Algerian authorities be officially recognised and in the hope to obtain redress as provided by international law.

Algeria: Reprisals against Families Which Lodged Complaints with the Human Rights Committee

DZA - News | 26 March 2015

On 26 March 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRCtee) regarding the retaliatory measures taken by the Algerian authorities against some families from the region of Jijel who had sent individual complaints to the Committee following the enforced disappearance or summary execution of their relatives in the 1990s.

Algeria: Abdellah Benaoum Condemned for Defending the Rights of Students

DZA - News | 03 December 2014

Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression regarding the arbitrary arrest of Abdullah Benaoum, prosecuted and brought before the Relizane Court after his attempt to denounce the discriminatory measures taken by the Chancellor of the University of Relizane against some Law students.

Algeria: Condemned by UN Human Rights Committee After Summary Executions of FEDSI Brothers by the Head of Taher’s Daïra (Jijel)

DZA - News | 10 October 2014

During its 111th session, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) has established the Algerian authorities' responsibility in the murder of the FEDSI brothers on 19 April 1997 in the village of Tellata near Taher in the province of Jijel. The principal perpatrator of their summary execution is none other than the head of the Daira (district) of Taher, Fourar Meheni, accompanied by the head of the local police (Dark al Watani) and the Police Commissioner of Taher.

Algeria: Algiers Schoolboy Missing for 17 Years

DZA - News | 05 July 2013
At around 2.20am on the 28th of February 1996, Mohamed Lamine Nateche, a 16-year-old boy, was abducted by agents from the police station near his grandparents' home in Hussein Dey, in the suburbs of Algiers. He often spent the night there as the house was close to his school. Thereafter, he was taken to Bourouba police station.

Lebanon - HR Instruments

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

ICCPR: Accessed on 03.11.1972
Optional Protocol: No

State report: Overdue since 21.03.2001 (3rd)
Last concluding observations: 05.05.1997

Convention against Torture (CAT)

CAT: Accessed on 05.10.2000
Optional Protocol: Yes
Art. 20 (Confidential inquiry): Yes
Art. 22 (Individual communications): No

State report: Overdue since 03.11.2001 (1st)
Last concluding observations: N/A

International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CED)

CED: Signed on 06.02.2007

Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

Last review: 11.2010 (1st cycle)
Next review: 2015 (2nd cycle)

National Human Rights Institution (NHRI)

No