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Algeria
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Kabylia
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Justice
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Autonomy
18 March 2009
Warrant said to be issued for Ferhat Mehenni by an Algerian court
Ferhat Mehenni : Are they trying to prevent me from going home and push me to perpetual exile?
Ferhat Mehenni
Release
Algérie-News reported in its edition of Monday 16 March 2009 that a warrant against me, as President of the Movement (...)
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Regional
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Morocco
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Identity
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Colonialism
19 October 2008
The ten prisoners’ activists of the Berber cause heavily condemned to 32 years of the prison
Morocco, the Ameknas lawcourt:
The ten prisoners’ activists of the amazigh/Berber cause heavily condemned to 32 years of the prison.
After more than one year and half of the carryforward of the lawsuit of the students arrested (...)
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Europe
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Religion
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France
17 July 2008
French minister denounces burqa
Urban Affairs Minister Fadela Amara said she hoped last month’s ruling would "dissuade certain fanatics from imposing the burqa on their wives".
She told the newspaper, Le Parisien, the head-to-toe garment was a "prison".
The (...)
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Human rights
16 June 2008
Algerian Dissident Journalist Arezki Ait Larbi: Stop "Witchcraft Trials" For Christians in Algeria
In the western Algerian city of Tiaret, a 37-year-old convert to Christianity is currently on trial for "practicing a non-Muslim religion without authorization," under a 2006 law regulating the religious practice of non-Muslims. The (...)
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Economy
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Diaspora
18 February 2008
North Africans face struggle to find work
North Africans face struggle to find work Numbers growing. Unemployment rate 4 times higher than Quebecers born here
Unfortunately for him and for the province that recruited him, Hocine Khouf is a negative statistic.
Still finding (...)
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Regional
15 January 2008
Arabist repression against Amazigh students
Azul damghnas
Best and warm regards to the real martyrs of morocco and those of the armed resistance and the independance army mainly.
Best and militant regards to the martyrs of our fair and free cause in all of tamazgha.
Shocking (...)
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International
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Democracy
5 November 2007
Our Kurdish Friends
Have you heard about Abu Alaa?
Well, his story really begins, for those non-Arabians reading these tales, when Israel’s Rabin shook hands with his dear friend and colleague, Arafat, at President Clinton’s prompting. (...)
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International
11 October 2007
The Amazigh Cultural Movement of Morocco Under Attack
Violence recently erupted between so-called Arabist and Amazigh students at several universities in Morocco namely Taza, Meknes, Agadir, Marakesh and Tizi-n-Imnayen. This has led to many serious injuries and one death among the (...)
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News
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Migration
1 October 2007
Impunity in Algeria, the subject is taboo in Paris
The town hall of Paris is not the suitable place to speak about impunity in Algeria. Nadia Matoub, the widow of the famous Berber singer Lounès Matoub, assassinated in 1998 in Algeria under disconcerting conditions, has just learned it (...)
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News
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Lybia
4 July 2007
Amnesty calls for Libya torture investigation
Amnesty International called on Tuesday for an independent investigation into reports that at least two Libyan pro-democracy activists were tortured after being arrested for trying to hold a peaceful protest.
Twelve people have been (...)
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Human rights
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Media
2 June 2007
Incriminating evidence
Revelations of a former conscience prisoner:
Lambèse: the medieval Alcatraz
July 5th, 1985, Algeria celebrated the 23rd anniversary of its independence. The martyrs’ children that formed non-legalized associations, because (...)
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Human rights
1 June 2007
Eleven years ago, Mohamed Haroun disappeared after a long disease.
In the different testimonies on Haroun, people always evoke his intelligence.
Already eleven years since his disappearance, and Haroun Mohamed called Massin U Harun, has yet disappeared neither from the spirit of the people nor from (...)
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News
1 May 2007
World Press Freedom Day, Mohamed Benchicou’s press release
World Press Freedom Day
Mohamed Benchicou’s press release
"Tell the truth ... "
Even if it means dissatisfying forgetful minds, stooge or wincing persons, it is going to be necessary for us to tell the truth on this (...)
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News
27 April 2007
Arezki Aït Larbi arrested at Algiers airport
Arerzki Aït Larbi was arrested today April 26 at ten o’clock at Algiers airport. He was on the point of taking seat on board an airplane of the company Aigle Azure bound for Paris. Challenged to the level of the PAF (police force (...)
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Regional
9 March 2006
Journalist Al-Mansuri Among 132 Political Prisoners Freed - Fathi Al-Jahmi Remains Jailed
The Libyan government’s pardoning today of 132 political prisoners is a hopeful sign of reform, Human Rights Watch said.
Most of them had spent more than seven years in detention, imprisoned for nonviolent activities after (...)
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Human rights
7 February 2006
The human rights status of the Tamazight Speaking in Libya
Libya:
In the heart of North Africa, Libya is a well-known name in history and geography; Herodotus, the great historian, called Africa “Libya” during his time. The name “Libya” goes back to the Libico tribes (...)
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Human rights
9 February 2005
Victims of Human rights
Victims of Human rights deliver poignant testimonies of sufferings
In the first session of hearings into past human rights abuses, victims delivered on Tuesday poignant testimonies of their sufferings as as detainees or relatives of a (...)
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Europe
25 September 2004
A murder in Paris
Ameziane Mehenni, 30, was the son of the Kabyle singer and democracy fighter Ferhat Mehenni, whom we at FDD have had the privilege to know.
He and his father have been supporters of a free Kabylia, an area that is now part of Algeria. (...)
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Human rights
24 January 2003
18 Political Prisoners Are Dying In Algeria
Eighteen political prisoners in the Kabylie region, about 100 kms east of the capital Algiers, have reached the limit of their physical strength and their lives are at stake due to a hunger strike that is going on its third week, with (...)
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Discovery
17 July 2001
The origins of Amazigh spring
Amazigh Spring, as we call it today, was originally referred to in the official press as "the events of Tizi Ouzou," just as the French press called the war of national liberation (1954-1962) "the events of Algiers." We have chosen (...)
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