Justice: Security agents of prisons to be fired for beating prisoners
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General Directorate of Prisons Administration sent an instruction to managers of penal institutions, stressing the imposition of penalties that reach up to firing any security agent who physically assaults any prisoner whatever his punishment or crime for which he was imprisoned, even those involved in terrorist cases.
This instruction was sent by the Directorate General of the Department of Corrections, as revealed by Echorouk sources, which came after the complaints that were received by the services of Mokhtar Felion from a number of families of prisoners in penal institutions, after they were attacked verbally and even physically by the agents and some officials inside the prisons and penal institutions. Which negatively affects the reforms that were launched by the ministry about the improvement of conditions and humanization of prisons, and penal institutions in Algeria.
On this basis, the Directorate General of the Department of Corrections, with the consent of the Justice Minister, Tayeb Louh, sent instructions to tighten the punishment and dismiss any agent or senior official who practiced a physical assault against the prisoner who makes a formal complaint to the Department of penal institution, whatever his guilt or punishment.
This introduces the procedure in the context of reforms of the justice sector, especially in the part that is related to the rights of prisoners or guests, like shedding severe penalties on anyone who tries to insult prisoners who were punished for a certain crime.
In this context, head of the Algerian League for Human Rights, Professor Boujdamaa Ghachir, said that instruction was supposed to serve as a reminder to the content of the Prisons Act, which includes articles that maintain the dignity of prisoners.
“Such a step is considered good and serve the image of prisoners’ rights in Algeria, especially that what we have observed in recent years, highlights the fact that physical attacks were launched against prisoners of penal institutions, including what such assaults caused from wounds that worsened to malignant diseases, such as what happened in the “Koudia” prison in Constantine, eastern Algeria, when four security agents beat a prisoner with a chain that caused him wounds at the level of the nose.”
These wounds developed later developed into a malignant disease “nose cancer”, which led to his death.
The case is still on the level of the Public Prosecution’s of Constantine Judicial Council, says Ghachir.
“In order to protect more the prisoners in addition to the instruction that was sent by the Directorate General of the Department of Corrections, it is imperative that the judges, magistrates, prosecutors to visits prisons.
