Algeria demands the right to protest in a peaceful way, not in a violent way…
According to the Amnesty International, it is necessary to lift the state of emergency in the country which has been in effect for 19 years. This situation tends to increase restrictions of fundamental liberties throughout Algeria, more precisely regarding freedom of speech and freedom of association.
Algerian authorities are still tough on demonstrations against the government and use excessive force to ensure an “absolute public order”.
The citizens claim the right to express properly what they think and to be taken into account .They also specifies that the 19-year state emergency is used as a pretext to crack down on dissent and to detain an absolute control on the country. The origin of the Algerian state of emergency was the cancellation of the first elections, which allowed the participation of several political parties and so the Islamic Salvation Front.We may regard it as an unconstitutional measure because all decisions are made by Parliament.
The primary aim was to fight terrorism in the 1990’s and now it seems to be reached, but the government still wants to keep the state of emergency and reinforce the violations of the constitution but also the human rights in general.
Now people are use to asking institutions’ approval to create a project (as a newspaper or an organization for example.). It becomes part of the everyday life to a certain extent and it is harmful.
What is important to point out is that the way to a legally constituted state means before everything the lifting of the state of emergency.
The beginning of 2011 was hard for Algeria, price rises, and unemployment but also poor housing conditions. The demonstration keep increasing since then and get intensified with the Middle-East and North-Africa unrest that begun in Tunisia. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika recently announced that the state of emergency would be lifted in the "very near future", but no date has been announced yet. Even if the international pressure is on, the government does not want to cope with the real situation and the crisis in general.
Source:
http://www.amnesty.org/fr/news-and-updates/algeria-urged-allow-peaceful-protests-2011-02-11
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