MEDIA/ALGERIA: Government promises end to press freedom restrictions
The World Association of Newspapers reports that it has received assurances from the Algerian government that press censorship and the suspension of publications, together with the arrest, detention and prosecution of journalists for their reporting, have come to a "definitive" end in the country.
From IFEX, featured on the OneWorld News Service 21 March 1998
ALGERIA/MEDIA: Journalists victims of violence at peace march
On 12 February 1998, Algerian and foreign journalists - covering a peaceful march calling for a political solution to the crisis gripping the country - were attacked.
From IFEX, featured on the OneWorld News Service 17 March 1998
ALGERIA/MEDIA: Newspaper association set for Algerian mission
The World Association of Newspapers has been given the green light by the Algerian government to sent a delegation to Algiers next week - to meet with senior government officials and voice its concerns about the lack of media freedom in the country.
From IFEX, featured on the OneWorld News Service 17 March 1998
ALGERIA/HUMAN RIGHTS: Govt Accused over ''Disappeared''
The military-backed government of Algeria, faced with a confusing and increasingly violent civil war, has been involved in the ''disappearance'' of more than 1,000 suspected dissidents since 1992, according to a major U.S. human rights group.
From Inter Press Service, featured on the OneWorld News Service 9 February 1998
ALGERIA/HUMAN RIGHTS: Europe Continues To Back U.N. Investigation in Algeria
British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook admits that the European Union cannot act to help stop the systematic bloodshed in Algeria until the Algerian government is ready to accept its offers of help.
From Inter Press Service, featured on the OneWorld News Service 27 January 1998
ALGERIA/CONFLICT: Collection of Links
Voluntary Organisations in Cooperation in Emergencies (VOICE),
27 January 1998
ALGERIA/HUMAN RIGHTS: Europe Continues To Back U.N. Investigation in Algeria
British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook admits that the European Union cannot act to help stop the systematic bloodshed in Algeria until the Algerian government is ready to accept its offers of help.
From Inter Press Service, featured on the OneWorld News Service 27 January 1998
ALGERIA/CONFLICT: Killing Goes On Unabated As EU Mission Moves In
The intractability of the Algerian crisis and the immediate inability of the outside world to halt it was underlined today as militants killed at least 38 people, even as a European Union mission team arrived in Algeria.
From Inter Press Service, featured on the OneWorld News Service 21 January 1998
ALGERIA/HUMAN RIGHTS: Algeria Clears Way For EU Envoys
The Algerian government is to allow a ministerial level European Union mission into their strife- torn country, probably next week, a day after warning that they would refuse admittance to lower ranking EU officials.
From Inter Press Service, featured on the OneWorld News Service 16 January 1998
ALGERIA/CONFLICT - Algerian tragedy:
The appalling atrocities being perpetrated almost daily in Algeria, many against
women and small children, have sickened us all. We instinctively feel that the
world cannot just stand by and allow such brutality to continue; and yet we are,
somehow, part of the cause of it.
From UNA-UK, featured on the OneWorld News Service 14 January 1998
ALGERIA/FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION - Article 19 letter to The Times regarding journalists in Algeria:
Here is the complete text of a letter from Article 19 to "The Times" newspaper arguing for the end of state censorship which has seen journalists forced into hiding or killed and newspapers banned.
From IFEX, featured on the OneWorld News Service 12 January 1998
ALGERIA/HUMAN RIGHTS - More civilians massacred:
Scores more people have been massacred in Algeria, according to media reports Tuesday and international pressure increased on the Algerian government for
action to end the killings.
From IPS, featured on the OneWorld News Service 7 January 1998
ALGERIA/CONFLICT - The killing spree:
Behind the recent massacres in Algeria lies a darker struggle: war between the rival clans of the military government, one now in a marriage of convenience with the armed wing of the banned Islamic Salvation Front, the other fighting to ensure its survival behind a democratic facade, says Index on Censorship.
From Index on Censorship, featured on the OneWorld News Service 11 December 1997
ALGERIA/MEDIA - Witness:
Since 1992, 60 Algerian writers, photographers and broadcasters have been killed, mainly by militants of the extremist Islamic group, the GIA, though many observers also suspect the hand of the state.
From Index on Censorship, featured on the OneWorld News Service 4 December 1997
ALGERIA/CONFLICT - Algeria's second bloody war:
Algeria is now undergoing its second bloody civil war in 40 years. The country which fought itself free of the French in the 1950s and 1960s is now wracked by bitter fighting between Islamic fundamentalists and military authorities. Over 60,000 people have died in the latest conflict.
From Out There News, featured on the OneWorld News Service 5 November 1997
ALGERIA/HUMAN RIGHTS - A call for action to end a human rights crisis:
The last year has seen the longest, most intense spell of violence since the beginning of the conflict in Algeria five years ago. Violence which has taken a new and terrifying turn with the massacre of civilians.
From Amnesty International, featured on the OneWorld News Service 16 October 1997
ALGERIA/HEALTH - Kamikazes, youth serving youth in a dangerou climate:
For young people to help their peers by distributing information on drugs, unwanted pregnancy and AIDS is not unusual in many countries these days. But in the difficult environment of a country like Algeria, for adolescents to inform their peers and provide condoms on the streets might provoke violent reactions from some ultra-conservative groups.
From International Planned Parenthood Federation, featured on the OneWorld News Service 30 September 1997
ALGERIA/CONFLICT - Two hundred massacred in Algiers:
Up to 200 people were killed by unknown attackers yesterday in Baraki, a suburb of the capital city Algiers. This latest in a series of horrific massacres has left Algeria in the grip of terror, and is finally forcing the international community to face up to the reality of the brutal war in the north African country.
By the OneWorld News Service 24 September 1997
ALGERIA/HUMAN RIGHTS - Amnesty International condemns massacres and calls for urgent measures:
Amnesty International has condemned the massacres of more than 500 civilians in Algeria over the past few weeks, and urged Western governments to ensure that Algerian asylum-seekers who would be at risk of death or other human rights violations in Algeria are not sent back to their country.
From Amnesty International, featured on the OneWorld News Service 24 September 1997
ALGERIA/CONFLICT - The Mujahid: 'no talks with heretics':
He would be known only as Abu Mohammed, a common enough nom
de guerre among Islamist guerrillas around the world. His voice, like
many others of his ilk, was calm and measured.
From Out There News, featured on the OneWorld News Service 1 September 1997
CONFLICT/ALGERIA - Amnesty International condemns massacres of civilians:
Amnesty International has condemned in the strongest terms the massacres of civilians which continue to be committed daily in Algeria.
From Amnesty International, featured on the OneWorld News Service 13 February 1997
FREE SPEECH/ALGERIA - Newspaper seized, censorship goes on as normal:
On 16 January the authorities seized the newspaper al-Mouad, an
Islamist-leaning, Arabic-language weekly, as it was being printed.
From Index on Censorship, featured on the OneWorld News Service 4 February 1997
DEMOCRACY/ALGERIA - Reign of terror worsens as 'the power' digs in:
Algerians have little to celebrate on the fifth anniversary of the military's scrapping of elections to deny Islamists victory. Although new polls are due this year, attempts to expand democracy have been shelved, while violence escalates.
From Gemini News Service, featured on the OneWorld News Service 30 January 1997
HUMAN RIGHTS/ALGERIA - Fear and silence:
More than 50,000 people have been killed in the past five years in Algeria. The country's civilians bear the brunt of confrontations between security forces and armed opposition groups. Roger Goldsmith reports.
From Amnesty International, featured on the OneWorld News Service 20 January 1997
The hidden human rights crisis:
As the dirty war between Islamic militants and government forces continues in Algeria, horrific abuses are being perpetrated against civilians, says Amnesty International.
From Amnesty International, featured on the OneWorld News Service 28 November 1996
Rai singer murdered by Islamist guerillas:
One of Algeria's most popular singers, Cheb Aziz, was found murdered on 20 September after being kidnapped by Islamic militants. His style was known as 'rai' - a blend of Western and Arabic music. He is the fourth 'rai' artist to be killed by the guerillas, who say the music turns people from the Koran.
From Index on Censorship, featured on the OneWorld News Service 3 October 1996
Women in Algeria fight for peace and press freedom:
More than 50 journalists have been assassinated by Islamic militants in Algeria since 1992. One female editor talks to Gemini News Service about her role in highlighting the abuse of human rights.
From Gemini News Service, featured on OneWorld News Service 2 April 1996
Thousands of detainees released in Algeria:
Amnesty International has welcomed the release by the Algerian government of detainees who have been held without trial since 1992, when parliamentary elections were cancelled by the military.
From Amnesty International, featured on OneWorld News Service 1 December 1995
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