The Right That Vanished from Algeria’s Constitution

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Yacine Mebarki, who is serving a one-year prison term after an appeals court upheld in November 2020 the charge of "denigrating" Islam, among others. © Private It is sadly commonplace that many countries that respect human rights the least have constitutions that respect human rights the most. Iraq’s constitution under Saddam Hussein, for example, guaranteed freedom of expression, assembly, religion, privacy, and the rest. What’s less common is when a government decides to drop all pretense at respecting a right by expunging it from its constitution. Algerian authorities…

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