AFP
Eight people have been arrested for the Hirak pro-democracy protests in Algeria.
The protests were sparked in February 2019 over then-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a fifth term in office.
The directorate general for National Security said authorities had also seized technological equipment.
Algerian security services said Tuesday they had arrested eight people linked to the Hirak pro-democracy protest movement over an allegedly foreign-financed criminal association.
"The security services arrested a criminal organisation of eight people aged from 26 to 60 operating under the guise of an unauthorised cultural association in Bab El Oued," the Directorate General for National Security said in a statement, referring to a working-class district of Algiers.