A/HRC/WGEID/106/1
III. Other activities
6.
At its 106th session, the Working Group met with representatives from Asia-Pacific
States, the President of the Human Rights Council, and staff from the Field Operations and
Technical Cooperation Division of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights.
7.
The Working Group finalized its study on enforced or involuntary disappearances
and economic, social and cultural rights and decided to conduct a new study on enforced
disappearances in the context of migration.
IV. Information concerning enforced or involuntary
disappearances in States reviewed by the Working Group
during the session
Algeria
Standard procedure
8.
The Working Group transmitted 11 cases to the Government, concerning:
(a)
Mr. Rabah Hadjaz, allegedly arrested on 26 June 1995 by members of
the gendarmerie in the town of Ain M’lila, Skikda;
(b)
Mr. Fateh Touati, allegedly abducted on 1 July 1996 by agents of the
gendarmerie in Ain Naadja, Oued El Karma, Wilaya of Algiers;
(c)
Mr. Youcef Nouah, allegedly abducted on 17 October 1994 by
officers from Mountain Bourouba;
(d)
Mr. Abderrahmen Habhoub, allegedly abducted on 5 July 1994 by
agents of the military security in Wilaya of Medea;
(e)
Mr. Omar Nedjoum, allegedly abducted on 18 January 1996 by police
officers from Cavignac;
(f)
Mr. Khalfallah Nail, allegedly arrested in April 1996 by uniformed
police from the town of El Feidh Botma;
(g)
Mr. Seddik Kebbabi, reportedly arrested on 5 June 1995 by plainclothed agents from the Department of Investigation and Security Services, at the
cafeteria of Gerta;
(h)
Mr. Abderrahmane Ghoul, allegedly arrested on 20 November 1995
by police officers at a taxi station in Barbessa Haouch Telly;
(i)
Mr. Habib Khiati, allegedly abducted on 1 October 1997 by uniformed
and masked members of the national security forces (Sûreté nacionale) in the village
of Ain Zergua Rabaihia, Wilaya of Saida;
(j)
Mr. Mohamed El Heit, allegedly abducted on 12 October 1994 by
police and military officers of the Bourouba;
(k)
Mr. Hatem Rabah, allegedly arrested on 26 February 2011 by agents
from the anti-terrorist brigade of Bouyahia, Beni Doula, Tizi-Ouzou.
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