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Click to expand Image Algerian activist Amira Bouraoui in Algiers, April 14, 2014. 2014 Nacerdine Zebar/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images (Beirut) - The Algerian authorities have been holding at least four people for more than four months, including a journalist, for allegedly helping an activist to leave the country in February 2023, Human Rights Watch, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, and EuroMed Rights said today. The activist, Amira Bouraoui, who was convicted for her peaceful activism and was subjected to an arbitrary travel ban since 2021, fled across the Tunisian border. The in...

Algeria: Free People Held after Activist Fled

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Bouraoui was sentenced in May 2021 to two years in prison for "offending Islam" and for "attacking the person of the President of the Republic" without a warrant of committal at the hearing.