Algeria's judicial union announced Saturday its independence, denying accusations that it had received orders from a higher authority to launch a crackdown on corruption suspects led by ousted President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
The Executive Office of the National Union of Magistrates said in a statement that the only guarantee of justice comes from any body outside the jurisdiction of the Judiciary, but rather from the procedures that enshrine the independence of judges, from reviewing laws and reviewing the structures governing the work of judges.
The judges "refuse to deal with them as a body acting on orders and at other summons, and adhere to their constitutional right, which is popularly demanded as an independent authority ... Judges stand at one distance from everyone ... and call on everyone to put their trust in them without guardianship or pressure "He said.
The statement added that it is impossible to talk about an independent and protected justice under the current laws and structures governing the judge's career. The demands for a new regime require freedom of expression and independence of the judiciary, and free of all material and human obstacles.
During this week, the brother of the resigning president, Said Bouteflika, and former intelligence chiefs Mohamed Medin and Osman Tarkat were imprisoned on charges of damaging state power. Where the three are described as the most important heads of the "deep state" and the former regime.
Parallel to the campaign of arrests, opposition figures and parties considered that the judiciary acted under the leadership of the army to "settle accounts" under the umbrella of fighting corruption.
It is noteworthy that the judges' union elected at the end of April Mabrouk is pleased to be the new president, succeeding Jamal Eidouni, known for his loyalty to Bouteflika, which includes most of the judges of the country, while the formation of a second union of judges (not approved) with the start of popular movement in February on behalf of the Judges Club, About one thousand judges, out of about six thousand nationwide.