The police headquarters highlighted the risks of disturbances to public order “in the context of the Hirak anniversary and violence between antagonistic anti- and pro-regime movements”.
The Paris police prefect banned, Friday February 23, three rallies protesting Algerian power planned for Sunday in Paris, Place de la République, due to the risk of disturbances to public order “in the context of the Hirak anniversary and violence between antagonistic anti-and pro-regime movements.
The rallies were to be organized by the “Movement for Justice and Against Corruption in Algeria”, by a collective for “the immediate release of all detainees and political prisoners and prisoners of opinion in Algeria” and “for the installation of a sovereign constituent assembly”, and by another collective, “Let’s Liberate Algeria”.
Laurent Nuñez had already banned such gatherings last week for the same reasons.
This year marks the fifth anniversary of Hirak, a popular protest movement initiated in 2019 to oppose the election to a fifth term of Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who was forced to resign.
The Algerian authorities continue to “repress the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly”, by “targeting critical voices of dissent”, five years after the Hirak pro-democracy demonstrations, the NGO Amnesty denounced on Thursday. International.
In a report on the past five years, the organization calls for “the immediate and unconditional release of all those detained solely for exercising their rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association.”
