6,500 Algerian detainees abroad await for execution or amputation of the hand
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Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights counted more than 6,500 Algerian prisoners abroad, especially in France, Spain, Belgium and Italy, and with a lesser extent Arab countries such as Morocco, Tunisia, Syria and Iraq.
ALDHR said that the Algerian government neglected its nationals abroad, especially since detainees are living inhumane circumstances that appose the international standards.”
Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights provided a report on the Algerian detainees abroad, using in its statistics that reports of non-governmental organizations and newspaper articles, and the families of the detainees, to reach the figure 6,572 detainees, 2018 of them in France, 950 in Spain and 893 in Belgium.
ALDHR said the State Secretary for Immigration in Belgium, has informed the Algerian officials that the number of detainees reached 5,000 people, who are living in closed centers, without offering the date of the statement of the Belgian official.
For the rest of the European countries, the ALDHR’s report shows that there are more than 886 detainees in Italy, 400 in Greece, 300 in Bulgaria, including 20 women, 32 in Britain, 30 in Switzerland and 15 in Luxembourg, as it also did not overlook the Guantánamo detainees.
For the Arab states, the largest number of detainees in Morocco reached 500 people, as the Association said; “More than 500 people are detained in Morocco , in light of the Moroccan-Algerian silence about their fate”.
It calls upon the two countries, especially Morocco to take the necessary measures in order to provide explanations about their fate and whereabouts, as Libya is ranked second with 400 detainees, as the report showed In 2011 that there were 30 prisoners in Libya, eight of them were sentenced to death and 22 to life imprisonment and five to amputation of hand, calling upon the Libyan authorities to determine their destiny.
A number of Algerian detainees which number did not exceed 70 people are in Tunisian detentions, 55 in Syria , 23 in Iraq. According to the Association the figure opposed what has been handled officially by the Iraqi and Algerian authorities.