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Working Group also held meetings with representatives of the Governments of Japan,
Mexico, Morocco and Portugal.
III. Information concerning enforced or involuntary
disappearances in States reviewed by the Working Group
during the session
Afghanistan
Joint urgent appeal
7.
On 15 January 2018, the Working Group transmitted, jointly with six other special
procedure mandate holders, a joint urgent appeal concerning the reported detention of
Mesut Vardak, Önder Akkuşçi and Yunus Demirci, the ongoing house arrest of Sami
Yavuz and Yılmaz Aytan, and the potential risk of deportation of all five individuals to
Turkey, which would put them at risk of serious human rights violations, including torture
and other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and of threats to their lives.
Algeria
Standard procedure
8.
The Working Group transmitted 20 cases to the Government of Algeria, concerning:
(a)
Abdelwahab Messaadia, allegedly abducted on 19 March 1995 by two armed
civilians believed to be from the military in Annaba;
(b)
Ahmed Ben Abdellah, allegedly arrested on 1 March 1978 by members of the
Algerian gendarmerie at the Colonel Lotfi border post on the Algeria-Morocco border;
(c)
Belkacem Amaieur, allegedly arrested on 23 March 1995 by the National
Gendarmerie at the police station of Sig City, Wilaya of Mascara;
(d)
Hasna Khallouk, allegedly arrested on 14 November 1975 by customs
officers at the Colonel Lotfi checkpoint on the Algeria-Morocco border;
(e)
Amar Ould Mimoun SNP, also known as Amar Ould Mimoun Zaoui,
allegedly arrested in September 1975 by Algerian police forces at his home in Douar
Moulay Mustaph, Wilaya of Aïn Témouchent;
(f)
Abderrahmane Mouzaoui, last seen on 29 April 1991 in downtown Béjaïa,
and allegedly abducted by the Algerian authorities;
(g)
Louisa Chaouch, allegedly arrested on 15 December 1975 by the Algerian
police forces in front of her home in Tlemcen;
(h)
Noureddine Belarbi, allegedly abducted on 2 September 1995 by armed
police officers in uniform in Bouira;
(i)
Nasser Benhammadi, allegedly abducted on 10 October 1994 by plainclothes police officers in the annex to the City Hall in Constantine;
(j)
Boulanouar Belaicha, allegedly abducted on 15 June 1994 by military
personnel and police officers from his house in Berrouaghia, Wilaya of Medea;
(k)
Ali Kertali, allegedly arrested on 26 September 1996 by members of the
Direction générale de la sûreté nationale at his home in L’Arbaa City, Wilaya of Blida;
(l)
Bachir Kouicem, allegedly arrested on 24 April 1995 by members of the
National Gendarmerie of Messad at his home in Messad, Wilaya of Djelfa;
(m) Boualem Aissa Koridak, allegedly arrested on 3 January 1995 by the police
of Hai Enahda at his home in Hai Enahda, Wilaya of Aïn Témouchent;
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