Algeria Bound

Algerian authorities on Thursday released on probation a leading opposition activist opposed to the country's forthcoming elections, a prisoners' support group said. Karim Tabbou, a key figure in demonstrations that forced longtime president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to...

It’s hunting season against journalists and free thinkers Being a journalist or a whistleblower is a dangerous job in Algeria. The regime has zero tolerance for people who report facts. And even if you are like Noureddine Tounsi, whose crime was to report criminals,...

Algerian security services said Tuesday they had arrested eight people linked to the Hirak pro-democracy protest movement over an allegedly foreign-financed criminal association. "The security services arrested a criminal organisation of eight people aged from 26 to...

By Abdellah Cheballa - Twenty years ago, an Algerian teenager's death in police custody in the heartland of the North African country's Berber minority sparked an uprising that helped blaze the trail for future protests. Massinissa Guermah, a high school student, was...