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Algeria: Medjnoun Malik has begun a hunger strike after waiting 10 years for his trial
DZA - News | 01 February 2009
Malik Medjnoun, accused of complicity in the assassination of singer Lounes Matoub, has been detained without trial for nearly 10 years. To protest against this situation, Mr. Malik Medjnoun decided to start a hunger strike, beginning29 January 2009.
Algeria: Mounir Hammouche’s death under tortured examined by the UN
DZA - News | 15 January 2009
Alkarama submitted on 12 January 2009 an individual communication to the Committee against torture asking it to examine the case of Mounir Hammouche, arrested by members of the intelligence services (DRS) on 23 December 2006, detained incommunicado and deceased due to torture a few days later.
Algeria : Confirmation of Adel Saker’s enforced disappearance
DZA - News | 08 January 2009
Alkarama submitted on 6 January 2009 a letter to the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and to the Special Rapporteur on Torture to confirm Mr Adel Saker's arrest by agents of the state, and to ask them to urgently contact the Algerian authorities.
Algeria : 175 cases of enforced disappearances in the Jijel region between 1993 to 1997
DZA - News | 02 January 2009
As announced following our meeting in November 2008 with the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Alkarama submitted a list of 175 cases of enforced disappearances which took place during the period from 1993 to 1996 in the Jijel region (300 km to the east of Algiers) to the Working Group.
Algeria: Mr Moussa Bourefis meets the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances
DZA - News | 03 December 2008
On 28 November 2008, Moussa Bourefis, the son and brother of two persons disappeared in Algeria, met with the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances at Palais Wilson in Geneva, alongside representatives from Alkarama and Algeria Watch.