Algeria

UN examines human rights in member countries - 7 April 2008

All UN member states are facing a rigorous examination of their human rights records.

Six years from home – Guantánamo detainees from Bosnia and Herzegovina - 18 January 2008

It is now six years since six men were illegally transferred from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Guantánamo, where they remain in indefinite detention.

Algiers bomb attacks kill at least 52 - 11 December 2007

At least 52 people have been killed and many others injured in two bomb attacks in Algiers.

Algerian human rights lawyers acquitted - 30 April 2007

Algerian human rights lawyers Hassiba Boumerdesi and Amine Sidhoum were acquitted of charges of violating laws governing the organization and security of prisons by a

Algeria: Persistent torture by the Military Security in secret locations - 10 June 2007

Torture and other ill-treatment continue to be perpetrated with impunity in Algeria in cases of individuals who are thought to have information about terrorism.

UK must stop deportations to torture states - 1 March 2007

After labelling them as threats to "national security", the UK has recently deported two men to Algeria, a country with a known record of torture and other i
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The government introduced new amnesty laws entrenching impunity for gross human rights abuses in a stated effort to bring closure to the internal conflict of the 1990s, and cri