Five years after protests began, Algeria still clamping down: Amnesty ...Kuwait

Five years after pro-democracy protests began in Algeria, the country's authorities are still clamping down on the right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, Amnesty International said Thursday. The Hirak protest movement started in 2019, when hundreds of thousands poured onto the streets against longtime president Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a fifth term. The protests continued after his ouster, with demonstrators demanding a sweeping overhaul of the ruling system in place since Algeria's 1962 independence from France. In a report based on testimonies of detainees, families and lawyers, Amnesty said Algerian authorities had "escalated their repression o

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