Algeria has disbanded LADDH, a human rights NGO that it claimed was cooperating with international rights groups in a context of increased military crackdowns on dissident voices.
According to the NGO, its only crime was to defend human rights in a country where journalists and civil society activists are kept in jail.
Following a suit filed by the interior ministry, the Algerian judiciary accused LADDH of “working on human rights issues together with internationally renowned organizations… and for defending migrants’ rights as well as workers’ rights,” LADDH said.
Algeria bans Human Rights Watch and Amnesty. The regime is preparing for a second mandate under puppet civilian president Tebboune.
After the closing of Radio M, the most recent free media radio station, and the arbitrary detention of its editor in chief Ihsane Al Kadi, the media were forced to be domesticated.
Despite the media blackout and the prevention of foreign journalists to report on the ground, several international outlets including Le Monde, the New York Times and the Economist wrote about Algeria’s grave human rights violations, drawing a portrait of a state ruled by a ruthless regime that has turned the country into a “giant prison”.
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