Algeria: Conviction for Anti-Bias Blog

(Beirut) Algeria’s judiciary sentenced an Amazigh activist to a suspended one-year prison term on August 7, 2018 for a Facebook post criticizing government discrimination against a minority group, Human Rights Watch said today. In the 2014 social media post, Salim Yezza criticized the authorities’ discriminatory policy against the Mozabites, an Amazig or Berber – ethnic minority in the Ghardaia region. Expand Amazigh activist Yezza Salim appears in photo from Wikipedia profile. © Adil Massil Yezza is a member of the Rally of Amazigh, a group based in France, where he has lived since 2011.…

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