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• Committee against torture hears response of Algeria (UNOG, 05.05.08)
• Committee against torture begins review of report of Algeria (APO, 02.05.08)
• Rabah Kadri was released (AI, 30.04.08)
• Report Alkarama: Torture remains a common practice (April 2008, pdf)
• In a report to the Committee Against Torture, Alkarama denounces the persistence of torture (EK, 19.04.08)
• Algeria: Briefing to the Committee Against Torture (AI, 17.04.08, pdf)
• Algeria presents torture related- report to UN Committee against Torture next May.2 (EK, 24.04.08)
• Denmark: “Terror threats force us closing our Embassy in Algiers” (EK, 24.04.08)
• Algeria studies application by U.S requiring 3 Algerian suspect prisoner’s transfer (EK, 22.04.08)
• Algeria negotiations with WTO omitting national sovereignty issues (EK, 21.04.08)
• Niger People’s Movement for Justice denies contacts with Al Qaeda (EK, 21.04.08)
• Demonstrators accuse political party leader of involvement in famous singer assassination (EC, 20.04.08)
• Rabah Kadri: Fear for safety/ fear of torture and other ill-treatment (AI, 18.04.08)
• UN: Mixed Results for New Review Process (HRW, 18.04.08)
• Human rights report not reflecting real situation in Algeria say human rights leagues (EK, 17.04.08)
• Austrian hostage’s crisis: Three Tuareg mediators assassinated (EK, 17.04.08)
• 3 days strike repercussions: Truncheons to disperse independent trade unions representatives (EK, 16.04.08)
• “Algeria not a shantytown which can be visited by human rights commission at anytime!” (EK, 16.04.08)
• Algeria census begins (AN, 16.04.08)
• Putin arrives in Libya for energy, arms sale talks (AFP, 16.04.08)
• Amnesty International report : Algeria before US and Iraq in death penalty (EC, 15.04.08)
• Guilty verdict against human rights lawyer undermines (AI, 14.04.08)
• Confrontations between dwellers and Gendarmerie forces (EK, 10.04.08)
• Austrian hostages’ crisis: Vienna denies allocating half ransom to Al-Qaeda (EK, 09.04.08)
• Coast guards picked up three illegal migrant bodies (EK, 09.04.08)
• FBI experts trained 37 judges in terror and laundering issues (EK, 09.04.08)
• "No marines forces in the Algerian Sahara" (EK, 03.04.08)
• US Government behind failing agreement on Algerian prisoners in Guantanamo base (EK, 03.04.08)
• Benbitour: Bouteflika remaining in power a reflection of “non-ruling system” (EK, 26.03.08)
• Justice Minister: “Khalifa dossier to remain open whatever Britain position is” (EK, 24.03.08)
• Mosques and Quran schools to counter evangelization “fierce attack” (EK, 24.03.08)
• The CIA says the kidnappers hided in Mali (EK, 19.03.08)
• Libya makes contact with Austrian hostage-takers (AFP, 18.03.08)
• Austrian hostage deadline extended by week (AFP, 17.03.08)
• Austria negotiating directly with Al-Qaeda (EK, 16.03.08)
• 158 repentants want documentary evidence for their children born in mountains in 90's (EC, 16.03.08)
• Guantanamo Detainee Gets Reprieve (EC, 15.03.08)
• Al-Qaeda ransom is releasing El Para and salafists detained in Tunisia (EK, 15.03.08)
• Libya denies releasing the 52 Algerian detainees (EK, 15.03.08)
• Bouteflika announces running for a third terms (EK, 13.03.08)
• Experts doubt Al-Qaeda’s tourist abduction claims (MEO, 13.03.08)
• Austria sends security investigators to Algeria (EC, 12.03.08)
• Algerian minister for foreign affairs criticizes Sarkozy’s project (EC, 11.03.08)
• Missing Austrians reportedly in Algeria (AFP, 11.03.08)
• Missing Australians 'nowhere to be found' (IOL, 11.03.08)
• Hans Blix Discusses Nuclear File With Algerian President Bouteflika (EC, 10.03.08)
• Work begins on Spain-Algeria gas pipeline (EC, 10.03.08)
• Tortured detainees likely pursuing El Harrach prison (EK, 09.03.08)
• 100 terrorists sentenced to death in absentia this year (EK, 09.03.08)
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• Malik Medjnoun, detained since 9 years without trial, on indefinite hunger strike (AK, 27.02.08)
• The Slovakian authorities are preparing to forcibly return Mustapha Labsi to Algeria (AI, 30.11.07)
• Slovakia: Extradition to Algeria would put Mustapha Labsi at risk of torture or other ill-treatment (AI, 28.11.07)
• Kamal Akkache detained incommunicado (AI, 14.11.07)
• UK: Secret judicial proceedings again expose individuals to risk of torture or ill-treatment on return to Algeria (AI, 06.11.07)
• Algerian official denies existence of secret prisons, use of torture (HT, 03.11.07)
• UN rights body criticizes Algeria's pervasive climate of impunity (AI, 02.11.07)
• UN condemns human rights violations in Algeria (Reuters, 02.11.07)
• January 1992-January 2007: 15 years of atrocities and impunity in Algeria (AW, 11.01.07)
• Third periodic report : Algeria. 07/11/2006 (pdf)
• Amnesty International: Human rights lawyers threatened with imprisonment on trumped-up charges (23.09.06)
• Secret detention/fear of torture: Abdelmajid Touati (AI, 20.07.06)
• Algeria: Evidence of persistent torture by the Military Security in secret locations (AI, 10.07.06)
• Unrestrained powers: Torture by Algeria's Military Security (AI, Report, pdf, 10.07.06) (in arabic, pdf)
• Incommunicado detention/fear of torture or other ill-treatment (AI, 20.06.06)
• The Seddat massacre: chemical weapons in the anti-terrorist struggle (AW, 31.05.06)
• Amnesty International writes to Algerian President about torture concerns (AI, 24.04.06)
• Algeria: Torture in the "War on Terror" (AI, pdf, 300ko, 24.04.06)
• Torture in the "War on Terror" (AI, pdf, 275kb, 18.04.06)
• Self-amnesty of criminal generals is unconstitutional and illegal (AW, 05.03.06)
• Algerian Junta Grant Themselves Amnesty (AW, 03.03.06)
• New Amnesty Law Will Ensure Atrocities Go Unpunished (AI, 01.03.06) Version pdf

• Algeria: More Violence and “Normality” (ZNet, 20.12.07)
• Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and the April 11, 2007 attacks in Algiers (F.Gèze, S. Mellah, 21.04.07)
• Islamist political parties and movements in Algeria : which prospects for the European Union? (F. Burgat and F. Gèze, 01.04.07)
• The Collapse of the Second Front (J. Keenan, FPIF, 26.09.06)
• Truth and justice after a brutal civil war (Le Monde diplo, April 06)
• Petition: Not in our name, Mr Bouteflika!
• The Facade of Democracy and Obstacles to the Exercise of Trade Union Rights in Algeria (Autumn 2005)
• Urban Violence in France (Merip, 11.05)
• Is Paris burning or Watt? (Global Research, 10.11.05)
• French Ghettos, Police Violence and Racism (Global Research, 08.11.05)
• The “Algerian enemy” of France: the GSPC or the secret services of the military junta? (O. Benderra, F. Gèze, S. Mellah, 03.03.06)
• El Para, the Maghreb’s Bin Laden (S. Mellah, J-B. Rivoire, Le Monde Diplomatique, February 2005)
• The coming wars (The New Yorker, 17.01.05)
• Mr Ahmed Zaoui Discusses Women, Islam and Human Rights (Scoop, 14.12.04)
• One Big Murder Mystery (A. Schatz, LRB, 07.10.04)
• Algeria and terrorism - A complex web (IISS, 08.03)
• Algeria's ashes (The New York Times Book Review, 18.07.03)
• The Torture of Algiers (A. Shatz, 21.11.02)
• Preface to "The Dirty War" by Habib Souaidïa by Ferdinando Imposimato
• The Algerian Connection (J.A. Mundy, 21.11.01)
• Regimes of (Un)Truth (Middle East Report)
• An Inquiry into the Algerian Massacres (Hoggar)
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