Amnesty International is very concerned that a peaceful demonstration of mothers, wives, sisters, daughters and other relatives of the “disappeared”, which is held weekly in Oran, Western Algeria, was violently broken up by police on 22 March 2000 with the arrests of at least 15 women. All the women had been released by the next morning except for Fatima ‘Ime who is still detained at the central police station in Oran.
