Mary Lawlor

UN expert slams Algeria’s ‘criminalization’ of rights activists

UN expert slams Algeria’s ‘criminalization’ of rights activists

  • Mary Lawlor, the UN special rapporteur on human rights defenders, said: “Human rights defenders in different fields of work, some of whom I met, are still being arbitrarily arrested”
  • Equally concerning, Lawlor said, were the arrests last year of three human rights lawyers
By AFP ·