Algeria: Judicial Harassment of Human Rights Lawyer

Expand Lawyer, Mr. Salah Dabouz, former president of the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH). © 2019 Private (Beirut) – An Algerian human rights lawyer is facing charges and restrictions on his activities, apparently for exercising his right to free speech, Human Rights Watch said today. Salah Dabouz, a former president of the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH), is facing a trial for Facebook posts in which he criticized the prosecution of members of the country’s Mozabite ethnic minority. A court has also ordered him to report three times a week to…

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