Sidi Mohamed Bourouis, Sadji Ouassini and Khaled Al Laidaoui, all Algerian nationals, have served a sentence of 14 years in Morocco and have just been released. The Algerian authorities have asked that they be returned to Algeria, where they were sentenced in absentia. Morocco has signed the Convention against Torture, which stipulates that no person may be extradited to a country that practices torture. The Committee against Torture found that torture continues to be practiced in Algeria.