The opponent Karim Tabbou, one of the figures of the pro-democracy movement in Algeria, was released on Saturday after 24 hours of detention without explanation as to the reasons for his arrest, announced his lawyer.
Politician Karim Tabbou was released after being detained for 24 hours and is due to appear before the police on May 4, his lawyer, Toufik Belala, announced on Facebook. The lawyer, unreachable, gave no further explanation.
On Saturday, the opponent’s brother, Djaffar, denounced his continued detention and the fact that Mr. Tabbou had been arrested arbitrarily and in a terrifying manner, without giving him the right to contact either his family or a lawyer.
What is power still playing for, and what is this new escalation responding to? also questioned the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH) on Facebook.
Mr. Tabbou’s last public activity was his participation Thursday in the funeral of Hakim Debbazi, a Hirak activist.
The death of Mr. Debbazi, 55, after two months in detention, sparked a wave of emotion in Algeria.
In another publication on Saturday, the LADDHreiterated its request for an investigation into the death of Mr. Debbazi. The LADDH still awaits the truth about the circumstances of Debbazi’s death in prison.
In a Facebook post dated April 26, Tabbou blamed authorities for his death while detained since late February for social media posts.
Physically dead, the martyrs of just causes are more than alive, indicated Mr. Tabbou in his publication before adding: Of course that the power remains and will remain the one and only responsible for his death.
Karim Tabbou, 47, servedune peine d’un an de prison en 2020foratteinte à la sûreté nationalebecause of a video on his party’s Facebook account where he criticized military interference in political affairs.
Leader of a small opposition party not approved by the authorities, the Democratic and Social Union (UDS), he is one of the most popular faces of the Hirak, marked by imposing demonstrations from February 2019 until the beginning of 2020.
According to the National Committee for the Liberation of Detainees (CNLD), about 300 people are still imprisoned in Algeria in connection with the Hirak or with the defense of individual freedoms.
