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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 (...)continue

Regional - Morocco - Identity - 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 (...)continue

Europe - Religion - 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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

Economy - 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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

International - 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. (...)continue

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 (...)continue

News - 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 (...)continue

News - 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 (...)continue

Human rights - 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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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. (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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