Algeria

Algeria: Deportation to Algeria of a man convicted of terrorist acts would expose him to inhuman or degrading treatment

Published by Right To Remain on December 3, 2009

Press release issued by the Registrar, Chamber judgement 3 December 2009 Daoudi v. France (application no. 19576/08) Violation of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) of the European Convention on Human Rights if deportation order implemented (The judgment is available only in French) Principal facts The applicant, Kamel Daoudi, is an Algerian national who was born in 1974 and is currently subject to a compulsory residence order in the Creuse département (France). He arrived in France in 1979 with his parents. He went to school in France and later worked as a computer engineer. His parents also live in France, as do his brother and Read the full article…

Algeria to try deported terror suspects

Published by Right To Remain on February 26, 2007

Clare Dyer, The Guardian 26th February 2007 Two Algerian terror suspects who were deported to their homeland last month have been arrested, imprisoned and charged with terrorist activities, despite being assured by Algerian officials in Britain they would face no criminal proceedings. One of them, known as H, withdrew his appeal against deportation after a British official told the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) in a statement: “The British government has absolutely no reason to believe that H will be arrested or otherwise detained for a prolonged period of time if deported to Algeria.” But his legal advisers and Amnesty Read the full article…