PARIS - Mohamed Benhalima looks wary and frightened as he is led off a plane at Algiers airport, handcuffed with a security officer's arm wrapped aro
Human rights groups say that Algerian authorities use threats to national security to stifle free speech, including among journalists, and justify arrests.
An Algerian military officer-turned-democracy activist has been deported from Spain and charged in Algeria in a case that human rights groups see as another sign of an ever-expanding crackdown on dissent