02/12/2016 (Agence Europe) – On Thursday 1 December, in a press release, the Euro-Mediterranean human rights network, EuroMed Droits, strongly condemned the “police violence against Algerian trade union activists” who were supposed to hold a demonstration against the government’s economic reforms on Wednesday 30 November in Bouira, in south-eastern Algeria. EuroMed Droits declared that, “Although two other strike movements and demonstrations organised over the previous few days by the SNAPAP [Syndicat autonome de la fonction publique, Ed], took place without violence, human rights activists have, nonetheless, been subject to continuous administrative penalties”. EuroMed Droits believes that the freedom of association has been “regularly undermined in Algeria and union meetings sometimes violently dispersed”. The organisation said that these practices had also being denounced by the ILO. (FB)