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Rabat – UN experts have warned about the deteriorating human rights in Algeria due to the ongoing crackdown against activists and human rights movements.
Last week, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Mary Lawlor, commented on Algeria’s decision to dissolve La Ligue Algerienne pour La Defense des Droits de L’Homme as well as Le Rassemblement Actions Jeunesse (RAJ).
These associations are some of the main human rights organizations in Algeria.
“Acts of limited meditation and repression against the human rights movement must end,” she said, stressing that the decision to dissolve the human rights association reflects “an alarming crackdown on civil society organizations.”
She added that such acts also “seriously” undermine the space for human rights defenders to carry out their activities.
For Lawlor, such decisions stand against the principles of the right to a trial.
She stressed that the association LADDH was “not informed” of the case that the Ministry of Interior filed against it in May 2022.
The association was also not informed by Algeria’s authorities of the dissolution decision.
Many reports have denounced lingering human rights crises in the North African country.
A coordinator of an institute for human rights in Egypt has warned the international community that over 260 activists are facing terrorism charges in Algeria.
Addressing the UN in Geneva, the human rights activist Karim Salem said that some detainees are facing terrorism charges even though they did not participate in “any act of violence.”
In 2021, the same concerns were shared by several UN experts, who called on the international community to intervene to end the repressive use of anti-terrorism law against protests in Algeria.
