Casablanca – The Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADHH) has denounced the “brutal arrest of Sub-Saharan migrants prior to their expulsion from Algeria.
This came after Algerian authorities arrested 1,400 sub-Saharan migrants in the Algerian capital in less than a week.
The NGO estimates 1,400 sub-Saharan migrants arrested in the Algerian capital in less than a week and placed in detention camps in Algiers or taken to Tamanrasset in the extreme south of the country for deportation.
The League also notes that these heavy-handed arrests extended to foreigners in normal migration situations in Algeria. These arrests were not followed by any explanation from the authorities and LADDH criticized these detentions as taking the form of a “raid.”
In the wake of the hunt for these migrants, a senior Algerian official accused sub-Saharan nationals of spreading AIDS in Algeria. Farouk Ksentini, president of the National Consultative Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (CNCPPDH), has gone so far as to say to a local newspaper that “these diseases are considered habitual and normal in those communities,” referring to the sub-Saharan community in Algeria.
