In Algeria, Karim Tabbou, one of the figures of the democratic movement, was arrested

[Illustration photo] On July 2, 2020, Karim Tabbou, one of the most emblematic figures of Hirak in Algeria, during his provisional release from prison in Koléa, 56 kilometers from Algiers.

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The Algerian Human Rights League says it does not know for the moment the reasons for this new arrest, Friday evening April 29 at his home.

He had already been imprisoned in March 2020 for a year.

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It was 7 p.m. on Friday when the police came to arrest Karim Tabbou at his home in Algiers.

According to a member of the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights, he was taken to the police station in the Châteauneuf district.

But we still do not know the reasons for this new arrest of one of the most popular faces of the democratic movement of Hirak, while the National Committee for the Liberation of Detainees has around 300 political prisoners in the country.

Leader of a small opposition party, Karim Tabbou had last year finished serving

for a post on his Facebook page in 2020 criticizing the army's involvement in political affairs. in Algeria.

Earlier this week, he published a "

", a 55-year-old political detainee, father of a small western town, who died in detention of a heart attack.

He had personally gone to the funeral of the one he had described as " 

" who had "

 ", could we read in his text.

And he had accused "

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" for his death.

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