Algeria: Lift Undue Restrictions on Associations

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Demonstrators carry an Algerian flag in Algiers, Algeria, April 2, 2021. © 2021 Ramzi Boudina/Reuters (Beirut) – Algerian authorities should end excessive control over civil society groups and parliament should enact a new associations law based on international human rights standards, eight human rights organizations including Human Rights Watch said today. A preliminary draft bill currently under consideration to replace the existing 2012 law would further undermine the right to freedom of association.The draft bill, reviewed by the organizations, does not…

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