Algeria Bound

Algeria withdraws law stripping citizenship to opponents abroad, big loss for regime hardlinersF

(Photo: Ultra-hardliner Justice Minister Belkacem Zeghmati) The Algerian regime backed away from issuing a controversial law that would have stripped political opponents abroad of their Algerian nationality. he draft law was presented Wednesday, 3 March by the...

Algeria: 15-year-old boy accuses police of sex abuseF

Algerian police said Sunday they had launched an investigation after videos on social media claiming officers sexually abused a teenage boy arrested during anti-government protests sparked fury. The 15-year-old was arrested on Saturday in Algiers, the capital of the...

Algeria: Guards and one inmate die in freak accident in Bejaia prisonF

Seven Algerian prison guards and an inmate died of suffocation Wednesday in a septic tank accident at a prison in the country's northeast, justice minister Belkacem Zeghmati said. The men had entered the tank at the Oued Ghir prison outside Bejaia in order to clean...

Algeria: Journalist Abdelhakim Setouane gets six months in prisonF

A court in Algeria's capital Monday sentenced journalist Abdelhakim Setouane to six months in jail for defamation of a former speaker of the lower house of parliament, his lawyer said. Abdellah Heboul told AFP that the journalist, who has been detained since October...

Algeria-Morocco conflict: Two scenarios on the likelihood of an armed confrontationF

Nov 10, 2021

Will then fight or will they not? Tensions between Algeria and Morocco continue to escalate following the killing of...

Algeria sacks General Mohamed Kaidi, head of the military Employment & Preparedness department, signals continued instability in military leadershipF

Nov 10, 2021

In a surprise move, General Mohamed Kaidi, the head of one of the most strategic departments in Algeria's defense...

Algeria: Series of audits unveils dismal practices and secrecy in public fund managementF

Nov 10, 2021

Operating outside of the democratic principals and without any legitimacy, the various regimes that governed Algeria...

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