A bipartisan U.S. government watchdog is calling for action against Algeria for forcing at least 16 evangelical churches to close in the past few years.
Christian communities in northcentral Algeria have been kicked out of their own church buildings at the hands of police just days after area Christians protested the government’s crackdown on churches.
On 13 October 2021, in an unprecedented decision, the administrative court in Algiers ruled to dissolve the Algerian association Gathering, Action, Youth (Rassemblement Action Jeunesse, RAJ).
ARTICLE 19 calls on the Algerian authorities to put an immediate end to the continuous flow of violations against journalists and the media, and to reverse unconstitutional practices restricting free expression.