Algerian government arrests opposition supporters
Algeria, Politics, 11/7/1997

While the political crisis between the government and the opposition parties is growing worse, the Algerian government started to arrest the opposition's supporters in order to weaken the popular support for the opposition.

Meanwhile, the Algerian government promised to submit its human rights report within 3 months to the UN Human Rights Committee. This report will enable the Committee to check the commitment of the Algerian government with the International Charter of the Civil and Political Rights. The charter which was signed by Algeria prohibits torture, murder, and the random arrests.

The UN Human Rights Committee had requested that Algeria submit this report after opposition bodies stated that the Algerian government applies diverse types of torture in prisons and that it runs random arrests. Some of the Algerian officers had applied for political asylum to France lately and confirmed that there are various types of torture in the Algerian prisons.

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