Amira Bouraoui, one of the most prominent figures of “Hirak”, and daughter of Khadidja Bouraoui, upon her release from prison on July 2, 2020, near the town of Tipasa in Algeria. RYAD KRAMDI / AFP
The mother of political activist Amira Bouraoui, at the heart of a diplomatic incident between Algeria and France, was released and placed under judicial supervision a week after her arrest in Algiers, an NGO said on Monday.
Activist Amira Bouraoui, a 46-year-old doctor by training, was arrested on February 3 in Tunisia from where she risked being deported to Algeria but was finally able to board a flight to France on February 6. . Algiers judged that it was a “illegal exfiltrationcarried out with the help of French diplomatic and security personnel, and recalled its ambassador to Paris for consultations.
Campaign against Bouteflika
Franco-Algerian Amira Bouraoui made a name for herself in 2014 through her involvement in the movement “Barakatwhich led a campaign against the fourth term of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. She was subject to a ban on leaving the territory in Algeria.
The mother of the activist, Khadidja Bouraoui, 71, arrested in Algiers on February 11, was released and placed under judicial supervision by order of the criminal court of Constantine (east), the National Committee for the Liberation of Detainees (National Committee for the Liberation of Detainees) said on Monday. CNLD).
The same court, on the other hand, issued in the context of this affair a warrant of committal against a journalist, Mustapha Bendjama, arrested on February 8, and a cousin of Amira Bouraoui, Yacine Bentayeb, added the CNLD.
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Arrested on February 14, Raouf Farrah, an analyst with the organization the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), was also imprisoned, according to the same source. “GI-TOC is deeply troubled and concerned by Raouf’s arrest, we are closely following and working to understand the legal background and the charges against him“said the organization in a press release.
Neither justice nor the Algerian authorities have communicated officially on the investigation launched after the exit of Amira Bouraoui from Algerian territory despite the ban which struck her. After a severe cold snap in the fall of 2021, Paris and Algiers had sealed a warming of their relations during a trip by French President Emmanuel Macron to Algiers last August.
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