The Algerian League for Human Rights, the Algerian National Committee for Detainees Imprisoned, Amnesty International demands that full light be shed on the sexual violence that Saïd Chetouane, a 15-year-old minor, is subjected to at a police station in Algiers. , last Saturday. Similar acts of torture are increasing against young Hirak militants.
Saïd Chetouane, 15, claims to have been sexually assaulted by police at a police station in Algiers, following his arrest on Saturday. According to Hakim Addad, an activist for Hirak, the case of Saïd Chetouane illustrates the worsening of the repression against the protesters.
“Unfortunately, the repression is there, and since June 2019, with the prisons, the placement under legal supervision, the almost daily arrests. Now it goes to a higher step: people complain about having been abused, tortured, for being sexually abused. “
The five young people who collected and disseminated Saïd Chetouane’s testimony were also arrested. “They just went to see the young teenager coming out of the police station, they tried to calm him down. “Obviously, they condemned the act that the young man said he had been subjected to and they did it via social media, and this is probably one of the reasons, or the reason, that they were arrested,” Hakim Addad continues.
The direction of the general police on Sunday promised to launch an investigation into sexual violence that Saïd Chetouane said he had suffered. We are still waiting for the results of the first investigation launched in February for similar facts against Walid Nekiche. The student claims that he was raped in the prison in Algiers in November last year.
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