The European Parliament strongly condemned, on Thursday 26 November, by adopting the joint resolution of the GUE/NGL, Greens/EFA, S&D, ECR, Renew Europe and EPP groups by 669 votes to 3 with 22 abstentions, the illegal and arbitrary arrests and detentions and judicial harassment of journalists, human rights defenders, trade unionists, lawyers, members of civil society and peaceful activists in Algeria.
This “has not allowed any space for political dialogue on the undemocratic constitutional revision and the exercise of the freedoms of expression, assembly and association”, denounces Parliament, which calls for measures to guarantee all these freedoms.
MEPs therefore urge the Algerian authorities to unconditionally release journalist Mohamed Khaled Drareni, sentenced to 2 years in prison for filming police attacking demonstrators in Algiers, and all those detained and charged for exercising their rights to freedom of expression, online and offline, and freedom of assembly and association.
See the resolution: https://bit.ly/2Jf5hV9 (Original version in French by Camille-Cerise Gessant)