The release of the activists of the movement in Algeria ... any implications?

Abdel-Hakim Hadaqa - Algeria

In a decision described as surprising, last Thursday, several Algerian courts released 76 detainees of the popular movement activists in one go, issued by the Capital Court, with the release of 51 detainees.

Among the most prominent of those released was the Mujahid Lakhdar Bouraqa, 86, who was placed in temporary detention on June 30, on charges of violating the morale of the army.

After his release, Bouraqah called for "the necessity of continuing the popular movement", stressing that "every generation has the right to choose its cause and its path."

Among them are also the poet of the movement, Muhammad Tagadit, the painter Abdel Hamid Amin, and the well-known activist Ibrahim Laalami, in addition to the retired general Hussein bin Hadid.

And human rights sources revealed to Al-Jazeera Net that about fifty other detainees are still behind bars, expected to be released soon.

A correct move
The move sparked widespread reactions, as well-known journalist Qadar bin Ammar wrote on his Facebook page that "the release of Mujahid Lakhdar Bouargha is a step in the right direction ... I hope he will get the patent on March 12th, God willing."

In turn, the writer Lakhdar Rabihi tweeted that "the release of many prisoners in the conditions of the movement is a good step, because Algeria does not express the state of the crisis except through serious and responsible dialogue that does not exclude anyone, and in an atmosphere of calm that allows cross-fertilization of ideas and meeting."

The well-known Minister of Heraki, Abdel Aziz Rehabi, also recorded that "the release of Barkhaa marks the beginning of correcting an arbitrary decision against him and the right of prisoners of conscience."

He considered it "a positive indication that could serve as the beginning of a set of confidence-and-calm measures, without which no conception of recovery from the crisis can succeed."

Mobility insights
On the other hand, the positions of the movement forces were somewhat different, regarding the effect of this step on creating the general atmosphere for dialogue between Algerians.

Abdel Qader Braish, coordinator of the "Academic Elites Initiative for Peaceful Change", considered it an initiative to start dialogue and agree on a road map to get out of the political crisis.

He told Al-Jazeera Net that "the gains of the movement were complete, and it remained a positive contribution to the path of building the state and turning to institutional mobility."

Activist Abdel-Wahab Geagea, in turn, expected that "the release of detainees will quell the burning sentiments," explaining that "any crisis must end at the dialogue table, away from the wrong and the wrong dualism."

He added in a statement to Al-Jazeera Net that "after all that has been achieved since last February 22, it is no longer necessary for everyone to engage in a national dialogue that receives the necessary understanding of power and support from the movement and societal forces."

However, the al-Hadi member, Al-Hadi Jaballah, stressed that "peaceful protests are legitimate tools for the people that are not associated with the release of detainees or not," stressing that seeing his wing "stems from the pairing between the mobility of fields and the mobility of visions and ideas."

And he considered in an interview with Al-Jazeera Net that the movement did not achieve its full demands, in the absence of the real will at the authority, as it worked to differentiate it by bartering with other currents, rather than sitting with the authentic national bloc, "according to his description.

In turn, the coordinator of the Al-Masar movement, Mounir Saghir, called before the call for dialogue to release all prisoners of the Black Decade and the remaining youth of the movement.

He assured Al-Jazeera Net that the continuation of the protest in the street is a decision not in the hands of one party, but rather "involved by multiple parties, sometimes reaching the point of contradiction in their political and ideological theses."

Responsibility of elites
On the horizons of the movement from the perspective of the observers following the step of releasing most of his detainees, author Tuhami Majouri said that "the escalation of the protest alone has no justification, because the people cannot do more than what they did, and because the stage is in a stage of interaction and engagement with the political reality, especially after Initiatives undertaken by the President of the Republic. "

Concerning achieving the demands of the movement, it is, in his view, "still far because the regime has not changed, and expressive forms are not the ones that achieve them, as it is the balance of forces and pressures that are making the event today."

He told Al-Jazeera Net that "what is now observed from the Authority's initiatives is not an absolute end and does not achieve the required alone, and here the need arises for a mature political class with the level of mobility to preserve its gains."

And he continued that the popular protests presented what they have, and the weight today falls on him - the political and social elites "to bear the responsibility of achieving the demands of the movement by pressure, participation, opposition and creativity in the formulas of political practice."

Mysterious fate
On the other hand, the detainees' lawyer, Abd al-Ghani Badi, affirmed that the release at the time did not touch all symbols, as "the fate of the likes of Fadil Boumala, Karim Tabou and Samir Belarbi is still mysterious."

However, he said, "The authority will apparently be compelled to play the truce card with the activists of the movement and drag it into a dialogue that imposes its axes, like every time the regime is subjected to tremors."

He considered that the equation this time is somewhat complicated, as the mob raised the ceiling high and demanded a real democratic transition, "while the authority shows publicly that the link is still present with the Bouteflika regime, especially in the new government."

He expected in his speech to Al-Jazeera Net that the release of the Harkat will reduce the pressure on the authority a little, but the path that it will take in terms of the intentions of real change and extending a deposit of actual confidence, is what determines the movement's acceptance to engage in the endeavor or not, he said.

He added that "the movement may be satisfied with serious workshops for the real transition as a program for dialogue, but without that, it will not engage in any endeavor."

Badi called on the authorities to make concessions and search among the acceptable mobility and personalities for those who build a friendly bridge for them to lay the building blocks for serious dialogue.