Arabic News Weekly Edition for Algeria, 4/15/2002
Weekly Edition, Algeria - Week of April 15, 2002
- Algeria violates human rights; Europe urged to play effective role
Amnesty said "Since 1992, despite Algeria's obligations under domestic law and international human rights standards, successive governments have not only failed to take the necessary measures to ensure that thorough, independent and impartial investigations are carried out into grave human rights abuses, they have repeatedly blocked the attempts of international governmental Algeria, Politics, 4/19/2002 - Association of Polisario victims unveils inhuman treatment in prisons
Akadi, said Wednesday at a press conference the Algerian-backed "Polisario" is implementing a strategy of terrorism and repression, founded on the liquidation of persons, groups and tribes who said no to separation from the homeland and who opposed the idea to partition the Sahara (put forward by Algeria). Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 4/19/2002 - Two survivors of Tindouf make moving testimony before ngos in Geneva
Two Sahrawi women who succeeded to flee the Tindouf sequestration camps in south Western Algeria made this Wednesday in Geneva a moving testimony of their ordeal before representatives of several women's ngos. Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 4/18/2002 - Acts of riots by unemployed Algerian youths Algeria, Economics, 4/18/2002
- Morocco attends annual meetings of Arab finance bodies in Algiers
Some 20 Arab finance ministers and governors of central banks will attend the meetings in addition to 300 bankers. Regional-Algeria, Economics, 4/15/2002