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Algeria: Elected member of the FIS - arrested, crucified and disappeared - Alkarama sends Lakhdar Bouzania's case to the Human Rights Committee
DZA - News | 11 January 2010
Alkarama was mandated to submit a complaint to the Human Rights Committee regarding the disappearance of Mr Lakhdar Bouzenia. Arrested 24 May 1993, Mr Bouzenia was detained incommunicado and severely tortured, including being "crucified", before disappearing during his transfer to Constantine prison a few months after his arrest.Algeria: More than 100 cases of enforced disappearance from Jijel governorate submitted to the UN
DZA - News | 31 December 2009
Disgruntled by the Algerian authorities' lack of response to demands for truth and justice in the wake of the disappearances of their loved ones, the families of the missing persons from Jijel governorate (300km east of Algiers) continue to call upon the United Nations for their help.
Algeria: Disappearances of Tahar and Bachir Bourefis put forward to the HRC
DZA - News | 20 November 2009
Alkarama has been mandated to submit a complaint to the Human Rights Committee concerning the disappearances of Tahar and his eldest son Bashir Bourefis, arrested in 1996 in the province of Jijel and gone missing ever since.
Algeria: Alkarama’s follow-up report to the Committee against Torture
DZA - News | 02 November 2009
In the context of four recommendations made by the Committee against Torture (CAT), Alkarama submitted a follow-up report to the CAT signaling the fact that these recommendations had yet not been put into place. During Algeria's third periodic review (CAT/C/DZA/3) between 2 and 5 May 2008, the CAT asked the State party to provide, in the space of one year, information concerning the follow-ups it should have made in the context of the Committee's recommendations as stated in paragraphs 4, 6, 12 and 15 of its final report.
Algeria : The Human Rights Committee ask for a reply to their final observations
DZA - News | 02 November 2009
The Special Rapporteur for the follow-up of final observations to the Human Rights Committee sent a letter on 27 August 2009 to the permanent representative of Algeria to the United Nations reminding him that in the framework of the Committee‘s final observations, the State of Algeria has not submitted any information for three of of the observations during the stipulated period of one year. On 7 November 2007, the Algerian permanent representative made generalized comments concerning the Committee's final observations.