April 30, 2021 at 9:16 am | Published in: Africa, Algeria, News
Police officers block the road as Algerian anti-government protesters take the streets of the capital Algiers within Hirak pro-democracy movement demonstrations in Algeria on 1 March 2021. [Mousaab Rouibi - Anadolu Agency] April 30, 2021 at 9:16 am
Algerian dissident Karim Tabbou, one of the symbols of the pro-democracy Hirak protest movement, was arrested on Wednesday evening in the capital Algiers,
Agence France-Presse has reported. The move, said his lawyer Ali Falah Ben Ali, followed a complaint filed against him by the head of the National Council for Human Rights (CNDH).
The opposition activist, 47, went before prosecutors yesterday to respond to the complaint filed by Bouzid Lazhari, chairman of the CNDH. Lazhari filed the complaint alleging insulting, swearing and verbal abuse and assault during the funeral of another human rights activist, lawyer Ali Yahya Abdel Nour, on Monday at a cemetery in t