Justice Minister: “Judicial Control Is Lifted Over Three Leaders In Islamists Party”

Justice Minister, Tayeb Louh, lifted the judicial control over the three Islamists, two of whom were leading figures in the former dissovled FIS party, and it comes to Abdelkader Boukhemkhem and Kamel Guemmaz, and also the head of the other dissolved “Algeria Contemporary Muslim” party, Ahmed Ben Mohamed.

An MP representing the Front of Justice and Development (Islamic) party, Hassan Oribi, said; “Justice Minister, Tayeb Louh, decided on Wednesday, November 9, to lift the judicial control over all the respected professors, who are respectively; Sheikh Abdelkader Boukhamkham,Sheikh Kamal Guemmazi and Dr. Ahmed Ben Mohamed.”

Three Islamists were subject, for nearly eight years, to judicial control on charges of “participating in a peaceful protest that is not licensed in Algeria against Israel’s war on Gaza in December 2009”, according to Oribi, who asked the Minister of Justice to apologize officially to them.

MP Oribi asked an oral question, on Thursday, November 3, to the Minister of Justice about the fate of the three Islamist leaders, in which he said, addressing the minister, “I want to draw your attention and I am addressing you as the honest judge who is not unfair against anyone. In 2009, a peaceful protest in Algiers Bab El Oued went out to the street against the Israeli aggression on Gaza, and the penalty was against three national figures, the first of them is a war veteran, 80, who is Mr. Abdelkader Boukhamkham, the second os a Doctor who is graduated from the French Sorbonne University, Mr. Ahmed Ben Mohamed and the third one was an imam and preacher and head of the Municipality of Central Algiers, Mr. Kamal Guemaz.”