Algeria regrets UN Human Rights Committee's report
Algeria, Politics, 8/4/1998

Algeria on Monday regretted a U.N. report over the human rights conditions in Algiers, describing it as an unprecedented act that contains allegations which were not based on facts.

"The U.N. Human Rights Committe depends in its report on simple allegations and ignored the reality which is supposed to be the core of the report," said Algerian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Aziz Al-Saba at his weekly news conference.

The report showed that the answers of an Algerian delegation to some questions raised by 18 independent experts, who investigate killing in Algeria, were not based on facts and were not convincing.

The committee said it did not reach a conclusion over the slow response of the security forces in reaching scenes of massacres to provide protection.

"Algeria detailed the committee over 49 missing cases and five others tortured or executed," the spokesman said.

Algeria will formally reply to the comments in the report, which was released last week after the committee met in Geneva and recommended conducting independent investigations and imposing various sanctions on Algeria due to the violation of Human Rights by security forces.

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