Algerian prisoners released from the Lybian jails decide to contact the president for reintegration

Farouk Ksentini meets this week with representatives of the Algerian prisoners who were recently released from prison in Libya, to examine ways to assist and enable them to reintegrate into social life, particularly those which found themselves without work, no source of livelihood after years spent in prison.

• They wish to contact the officials, as their representative Abdelkader Gasmi confirms, including the Presidency, in order to ask for financial compensations, to help them ensure their daily incomes, and reintegrate into everyday life at home with their families.
• The Advisory Committee will be created to promote human rights, headed by the lawyer by Farouk Ksentini as a first step, because it will serve as a mediator that will deliver their demands, as they are preparing to contact the Ministry of Youth and Sports, as well as the Ministry of Solidarity.
• Most of the Algerian prisoners recently released are passing a severe psychological crisis, because after failing to get rid of the feeling that they were criminals, after the years they spent in the detention without trial, as well as the difficulties they faced when they tried to return to their normal lives, especially for those who have spent long time in prison , that is why it is difficult for the representatives of the families of prisoners to persuade them to come to the capital to bring their suffering to those officials, given their inability to overcome the psychological crisis they are experiencing.
• Those prisoners who are mostly Touaregs, and who have their habits and traditions in particular, prefer to keep them, refusing to come to the capital Algiers, and prefer to assist the celebration of freedom with their families, without waiting for any help.
• Among the demand of the released prisoners, enabling them to get projects under the National Agency for supporting and helping youths, in order to begin small projects to help them ensure their lives, especially since most of them have lost their livelihoods due to the years of prison.
• Representatives of the prisoners are also preparing to communicate with the media, especially those who supported the prisoners in their suffering times, and will organize a press conference, during which they will present their suffering in Libyan prisons, as well as claiming for the need to help the 26 other prisoners who have not yet been released, including those who have not yet been tried, in addition to other prisoners who were arrested between June 2008 and June 2009,and whose number is unknown by the representatives of the families of prisoners, since they depend on phone calls that came from time to time from Libya.