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Since the end of the pro-democracy Hirak protest movement (2019-2021), the Algerian authorities have intensified their repression of peaceful dissent. They have targeted independent civil society organizations, political opposition parties, activists, human rights defenders, and journalists; and introduced restrictive legislative reforms aiming at crushing any form of organized contestation. This concerted effort on the part of the authorities has driven a growing number of activists and organizations to carry on their activities in exile.

An Algerian opposition figure jailed for two years for "insulting the president" is to be released Tuesday after his sentence was reduced on appeal

On the third anniversary of the pro-democracy protest movement Hirak, human rights organisations express their alarm over the dangerous intensification of repressive tactics Algerian authorities are using to silence peaceful dissent and stifle civil society.

The Algerian authorities should immediately release human rights defenders, civil society activists, opposition figures, journalists, and all others

The Algerian authorities should immediately release human rights defenders, civil society activists, opposition figures, journalists, and all others arbitrarily imprisoned for peacefully exercising their rights to speak and assemble, Human Rights Watch said today. Three years after the movement known as the “Hirak” began its massive weekly peaceful street marches for political reform, the authorities are holding at […]