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Algerian regime jails activist Brahim Laalami and opposition politician Khaled Tazaghart
An Algerian court on Sunday sentenced to three years in jail a member of the "Hirak" protest movement that forced longtime president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to resign last year, a rights group said. The group, CNLD, lists prisoners of conscience in Algeria. It said...
Algeria intensifies judicial harassment of Hirak activists
Since the sentencing of journalist Khaled Drareni and the re-arrest of Mohamed Laalami, several political activists have been targeted by a campaign of judicial harassment, worsening Algeria’s repressive strategy of ending political dissent and its human rights...
Algeria: Migrants perish off the coast of Algeria, hundreds rescued
Algiers, Sept 22, 2020 - Algeria said Tuesday coast guard officers had collected the bodies of 10 people drowned while seeking to cross from the North African nation to Europe, also stopping 485 migrants. Thousands regularly risk the dangerous crossing crammed onto...
Algeria: Incapable of governing, President Tebboune justifies repression with imaginary “destabilization” conspiracy
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has accused press watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) of working to "destabilise" the country with its campaign against the jailing of its Algiers correspondent Khaled Drareni. Rights groups have "targeted" Algeria "to sap...
Algeria: Former cop who joined anti-regime protests sent to prison
A former Algerian policeman who joined the country's protest movement was sentenced on Thursday to two years in jail, a prisoners' rights group said. Toufik Hassani was convicted of "threatening police agents" and "divulging professional secrets on Facebook",...
Economy: Plethora of problems are hitting Algerian winemakers hard
Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria - Algerian winemaker Dahmane Hamamouche used to rise early and rush to work each morning, but he no longer bothers, as his firm chokes on a cocktail of woes. Long accustomed to nasty surprises including unpredictable weather patterns and...
Algeria: United Nations independent experts pressuring Algeria to release wrongly jailed journalist
A journalist jailed for his coverage of mass protests in Algeria must be released, United Nations independent experts said on Wednesday. Khaled Drareni was jailed for two years on Tuesday as a crackdown on dissent intensifies after a year of anti-government...
Companies: Series of blunders result in millions of dollars of losses to Algeria oil firm Sonatrach ($)
After the disastrous oil leaks last week that took place on one of its pipelines in El-Oued and the problems that prompted a halt in activity in the LNG facilities in Skikda and Arzew on 7 September, Sonatrach experienced an explosion that reportedly damaged a large...
Algeria: Government-controlled court sentences journalist Drareni to two years in prison
Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni was jailed for two years on appeal Tuesday, a defence lawyer said, in a case seen as a barometer of press freedom in the North African country. Drareni, 40, has been in custody since March and was sentenced in August to three years...
The Algerian regime does it again: it blocks Internet access for the whole country to secure a pointless high-school exam
Algerians were unable to access social media accounts on Sunday as students sat national exams in the North African country where authorities are cracking down on cheating. Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp were inaccessible, an AFP journalist...
Algeria: Like all previous presidents, Tebboune wants his version of the constitution
Algeria's government has adopted draft constitutional revisions aimed at responding to the demands of the country's "Hirak" protest movement, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has said. "The proposal is fully in line with the requirements of modern state building and...
Algeria: Two political prisoners go on hunger strike
(Photo: Poet Mohamed Tadjadit) Two jailed activists from Algeria's anti-government "Hirak" protest movement have been on hunger strike for over a week to protest their incarceration, one of their lawyers said Saturday. Mohamed Tadjadit, nicknamed the "Hirak poet",...
The Algerian regime now sends poets to prison
The Algerian regime is gripped by fear that the anti-government Hirak movement reignites. Mass arrests have accelerated across the nation. The moment the sound of discontent is heard and more than a handful of people congregate, the political police unleash violence...
Morocco and Algeria turn to Russia and China for a Covid-19 vaccine
North African governments are once again relying on foreign sources to help them deal with their crises. After recognizing that their focus on the hydroxychloroquine, supplied by foreign sources, was the wrong approach and led to nowhere, they are now turning their...
Algerians called to vote again in November
Algiers, Aug 24, 2020 - Algeria will hold a promised referendum on a revised constitution on November 1, the office of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced on Monday evening. After "consultations with the parties concerned, it was decided to set the date of 1...
Algeria’s repressive courts sentence journalist Abdelkrim Zeghileche to prison on bogus charges
Algiers, Aug 24, 2020 - An Algerian journalist was sentenced Monday to two years in prison, his lawyer told AFP, in the latest trial of media and pro-democracy figures in the North African country. Abdelkrim Zeghileche, head of a web-based independent radio station,...
As Algeria-EU trade deal approaches, Algerian officials want new terms
Algiers, Aug 23, 2020 - Days ahead of a final deadline, activation of a long-planned Algeria-EU trade deal risks unravelling as political and business leaders in the North African country warn it will undermine economic sovereignty. The deal is meant to come into...
Opec reports members’ conformity to lower production, signals market improvements
Opec ministers stuck to an agreement to lower oil production at a monthly meeting Wednesday, underlining that only strict compliance could restore stability to prices undermined by the coronavirus pandemic. Ahead of a virtual meeting of OPEC and non-OPEC producers,...
Algeria: Birthplace of the Hirak movement, Kherrata experiences first post-confinement rally
We may have missed this story and reported as a minor event, and in fact, no national newspapers reported it, but thousands of people came out to demonstrate against the Algerian regime on Saturday, 15 August in Kherrata, 60 km east of Bejaia, in what was the first...
Algeria: Supporters of jailed journalist Drareni launch international appeal
Algiers, Aug 12, 2020 - Supporters of jailed Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni launched an appeal on Wednesday for international pressure to secure the release of someone who has become a symbol of press freedom in the North African nation. "We are launching an...
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