Algeria Human Rights

Human Rights Concerns

• Torture
• Impunity
• Women's Rights

Amendments to the Penal Code introduced a specific crime of torture, carrying severe penalties. However, the authorities did not generally investigate torture allegations. The U.N. Special Rapporteur on torture reported that the Algerian authorities had denied without investigation all allegations of torture submitted to them.

No full, independent or impartial investigations were carried out into the gross human rights abuses committed since 1992, including thousands of cases of civilians killed in targeted or indiscriminate attacks, extra judicial executions, torture, ill-treatment and "disappearances." Members of armed groups who surrendered to the authorities reportedly continued to benefit from clemency or exemption from prosecution.

Women continued to be subjected to discrimination in law and practice. Twenty years after the introduction of the discriminatory Family Code, women's organizations reinforced their campaigning activities for women's legal equality. The authorities did not act with due diligence to prevent, punish and redress acts of sexual violence against women or violence against women in the family.

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