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Algeria: The Committee against Torture of the UN lays bare the mechanism of repression
DZA - News | 19 May 2008
Alkarama for Human Rights, May 19, 2008
Alkarama welcomes the observations of the Committee against Torture published on May 16, 2008. They largely reflect its own concerns about the situation of human rights in Algeria.
Algeria before the Committee against Torture : The failure of the rhetoric of war
DZA - News | 06 May 2008
Alkarama for Human Rights, May 6, 2008
Representatives of Alkarama attended the periodic review of Algerian by the Committee against Torture (CAT) held on 2 and 5 May 2008. Our organization had submitted a few weeks earlier an alternative report to the Committee.
Representatives of Alkarama attended the periodic review of Algerian by the Committee against Torture (CAT) held on 2 and 5 May 2008. Our organization had submitted a few weeks earlier an alternative report to the Committee.
Algeria : Universal Periodic Review before the Human Rights Council on 14 April 2008
DZA - News | 12 April 2008
Alkarama for Human Rights, April 12, 2008
On April 14, 2008, the Human Rights Council will examine the situation of human rights in Algeria as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Delegates from Alkarama had attended the meetings on 8 April 2008 to review the situation in Morocco and Tunisia and noted especially for the latter country that its delegation had secured an agreed with stakeholders, particularly with the Troika Rapporteurs, on the final recommendations to be adopted. Alkarama fears that when reviewing Algeria this type of procedure is repeated.
On April 14, 2008, the Human Rights Council will examine the situation of human rights in Algeria as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Delegates from Alkarama had attended the meetings on 8 April 2008 to review the situation in Morocco and Tunisia and noted especially for the latter country that its delegation had secured an agreed with stakeholders, particularly with the Troika Rapporteurs, on the final recommendations to be adopted. Alkarama fears that when reviewing Algeria this type of procedure is repeated.
Algeria: The situation of human rights will be examined by the Human Rights Council
DZA - News | 10 March 2008
Alkarama for Human Rights, March 10, 2008
The Council on Human Rights meets on April 15, 2008 to conduct the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on Algeria. Alkarama presented within this framework a contribution on Nov. 20, 2007.
Algeria: Malik Medjnoun, detained since 9 years without trial, on indefinite hunger strike.
DZA - News | 27 February 2008
AlKarama for Human Rights, February 27, 2008
AlKarama sent an urgent appeal to the Committee on Human Rights to draw its attention on the situation of Malik Medjnoun, who was arrested on September 28, 1999 and detained without trial for almost nine years. The Algerian authorities have not acted on the findings of the Committee which had ordered in 2006 to either try him or release him. To protest against the refusal of the judge, Mr. Medjnoun began Monday, February 25, 2008 a indefinite hunger strike.