Algeria

Algeria / Switzerland - Abdelmadjid Tebboune meets Alain Berset in New York

General Nezzar is weakened, but not abandoned by Algiers

3 October 2023 by Amir Fares

"The whole world recognises that Algeria was fighting terrorism, with the exception of the Swiss justice system," said the Algerian foreign minister. He was reacting to Switzerland’s indictment at the end of August of former Alger [...]

Algeria - General Khaled Nezzar is accused in Switzerland of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Assad and Nezzar: Swiss justice finally moving, but not so convincingly

2 October 2023 by Julia Crawford

The Swiss have finally moved on two long-running, politically sensitive universal jurisdiction cases. But the chances of Algerian ex-defense minister Khaled Nezzar and former Syrian vice-president Rifaat al-Assad being brought to [...]

Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech in Algiers, surrounded by French and Algerian flags.

Opinion

France-Algeria: Having the courage to create a Truth and Memory Commission

15 October 2021 by Pierre Hazan

Sixty years after the massacre of Algerians demonstrating in Paris on October 17, 1961, for the independence of their country, French president Emmanuel Macron is expected to make a new gesture for remembrance. Macron has taken se [...]

Graffiti sur un quai de Seine à Paris :

France/Algeria: towards a "truth and memory" commission?

21 January 2021 by AFP

It is "a process of recognition" but "there is no question of repentance" and "apologising", said the office of the French president. On 20 January, Emmanuel Macron received a report by the historian Benjamin Stora on the colonisa [...]

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18 January 2017 by AFP

Switzerland drops war crimes case against ex-Algerian minister Switzerland said Wednesday that it had no grounds to charge former Algerian defence minister Khaled Nezzar with war crimes, the latest twist in a controversial five-year-old case. The Swiss attorney general's office (OAG) said it [...]

AFP

27 December 2016 by AFP

Algeria says 54,457 involved in 'terrorism' since 1990s Nearly 55,000 people accused of committing "terrorist offences" have faced legal proceedings in Algeria since the country's devastating civil war in the 1990s, the justice minister has said. It was the first such revelation by the [...]

AFP

6 July 2016 by AFP

Press under pressure from Algeria's 'draconian drift' The director of a television station is arrested... a court blocks the sale of an opposition media group... parliament passes a law to stop retired army officers commenting on politics. Despite a new constitution in Algeria guar [...]

19 June 2015 by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent

ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT HAS ENSHRINED IMPUNITY, SAYS LAWYER Mouloud Boumghar is an Algerian lawyer and Professor in Public Law at the Jules Verne University in Picardy (France). His research centres on violations of human rights and impunity, notably since the publication at the end of the [...]