Human rights abuse alert: Algeria

This Human Rights Abuse Alert is issued by The Chambers of 9 Bedford Row to draw attention to the situation in Algeria, which has been deteriorating since February this year. There are now grave concerns in particular about interference by the army in the conditions necessary for the rule of law to prevail, mass arbitrary arrests, a lack of independence and impartiality of the judiciary and future reprisals against journalists, judges and lawyers.

The class of persons primarily targeted are politicians, businessmen and their families and to such an extent that the country was unable to hold elections scheduled for 4 July 2019 to end the Interim Presidency created by the constitutional crisis after the enforced resignation of President Abdel Aziz Bouteflika.