Police ban rally of former detainees in Sahara camps in Algiers

Security forces have banned on Sunday about 30 former detainees of Sahara detention camps, to mark a sit-in in front of the advisory human rights league.The few protesters who came to Algiers to make out their claims were forced to rally in Ghermoul Street, away from the advisory human right league.

Security forces have banned on Sunday about 30 former detainees of Sahara detention camps, to mark a sit-in in front of the advisory human rights league.
The few protesters who came to Algiers to make out their claims were forced to rally in Ghermoul Street, away from the advisory human right league. 
The former detainees, who were imprisoned in detention camps in the Sahara in the nineties during the political and security crisis that ravaged the North African nation, claim that they caught cancer disease for they were detained near areas where France performed its nuclear tests.
They further accused head of the advisory human rights league, Farouk Ksentini, of rejecting receiving them in his office and hear them, although Sunday was the day of reception.
They said Farouk Ksentini has not met his committment in terms of informing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of their issue. The former detainees who were acquitted after serving prison in the Sahara for years, are still enable to issue passports and have not been compensated after losing their jobs.