Algeria: Labor Protests Forcibly Dispersed | Human Rights Watch - 0 views
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Police in Algiers beat teachers demonstrating for greater job security on March 21 and 22, 2016, injuring at least two
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.G., who asked not to be named, has been a contract teacher for three years in a high school in Algier
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Aïssat said that the police took them to the Mohammadia police station and held them until 5 p.m. He said that the police did not tell them the reasons for their arrest, and released them without charge.
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Algeria’s constitution guarantees the right to freedom of assembly. Amendments, entered into force on March 7, 2016, include a provision that, “The right to peaceful assembly is guaranteed within the framework of the law, which sets forth how it is to be exercised” (article 49).