The hearing is a crucial opportunity to draw attention to Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people and to place these atrocities under international scrutiny.
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Click to expand Image Algerian activist Amira Bouraoui in Algiers, April 14, 2014. 2014 Nacerdine Zebar/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images (Beirut) - The Algerian authorities have been holding at least four people for more than four months, including a journalist, for allegedly helping an activist to leave the country in February 2023, Human Rights Watch, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, and EuroMed Rights said today. The activist, Amira Bouraoui, who was convicted for her peaceful activism and was subjected to an arbitrary travel ban since 2021, fled across the Tunisian border. The investigation into Bouraoui's departure resulted in the arrest of five people starting February 8, including journalist Mustapha Bendjama. In a spinoff from this first round-up, the authorities arrested four more people and launched additional politically motivated prosecutions against Bendjama, and at least two others, including the Algerian-Canadian researcher Raouf Farrah, in a second investi