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Algeria frees first democracy activists after presidential pardons
Author: Sat, 2021-02-20 01:12 ALGIERS: Algeria on Friday released a dozen pro-democracy activists from jail, the first batch freed under presidential pardons issued ahead of the second anniversary of a popular uprising. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, in a long-awaited speech to the nation late on Thursday, declared dozens of pardons in a gesture of appeasement as the Hirak protest movement gathers momentum once again. The Hirak mass protests, meaning “movement” in Arabic, swept former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika from power in 2019, but continued after his fall. Tebboune’s initiative comes on the eve of the Hirak’s second anniversary on Feb. 22, with calls on social media for demonstr

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