The authorities continued to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, journalists, activists and citizens for exercising their rights to peaceful assembly and expression relating to the mass protest movement known as Hirak. Legislative changes imposed further restrictions on freedoms of expression...

Amnesty International Oral Statement to the UN Human Rights Council at their 52nd Session. 27 February – 4 April 2023. Item 6: Consideration of UPR reports: Algeria.

Algerian authorities should immediately release Slimane Bouhafs, an Algerian activist who disappeared a year ago from Tunisia and is now detained under investigation by an Algerian court, and ensure his freedom to leave the country, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today.

This document contains suggested recommendations to be made to the states under review at the 41st session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in November 2022. The countries covered are Algeria, Bahrain, Brazil, Ecuador, Finland, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland,...

Joint letter signed by Amnesty International, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and Front Line Defenders urging President Abdelmadjid Tebboune to immediately release and annul the sentence of environmental human rights defender Mohad Gasmi.

This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Algeria in November 2022. In it, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Algeria during its previous UPR, including in relation to the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and...

The undersigned organisations strongly condemn the deportation by Spain of Algerian activist Mohamed Benhalima on the evening of 24 March 2022, despite the risks of torture and serious human rights violations he faces in Algeria, and therefore in blatant violation of Spain’s international...

The Algerian authorities launched a repressive crackdown that has seen scores of people detained for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression and assembly, opposition political parties and civil society groups harassed, and the independence of the judiciary undermined, in the...

82 civil society organisations call on states to take action to address the Algerian authorities’ alarming crackdown on prodemocracy forces during HRC 47

On the second anniversary of the Hirak, a peaceful protest movement which started in February 2019 calling for radical political change in Algeria, Amnesty International calls on the Algerian authorities to immediately release all peaceful protesters, journalists and activists arbitrarily arrested,...

Algerian authorities should not deport a group of seven Yemeni asylum seekers registered with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), immediately release them from harsh and unsafe detention conditions in Algiers, and allow them unfettered access to asylum procedures, Amnesty International said today.

On 11 November, the court of Khenchela (eastern Algeria) is expected to hear activist Yacine Mebarki’s appeal, following his sentencing on 8 October to 10 years in prison and a heavy fine of 10 million dinars (about 77,611.55 USD) – the most severe sentence ever handed to an activist for his online...

Algerian authorities must not allow another activist to die in detention. The Algerian authorities have accelerated the arbitrary detention and prosecution of activists and journalists amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, most recently refusing requests to provisionally release and provide adequate...