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e-4057 (Foreign affairs)

E-petition
Initiated by Rachid Bandou from Laval, Quebec

Original language of petition: French

Petition to the Government of Canada

Whereas:
  • Since December 2019, Algerian citizens, specifically Kabyle people, have been subjected to repression and arbitrary arrests for publicly expressing their political opinions;
  • To date, human rights organizations count no fewer than five hundred people unjustly imprisoned in Algeria on the basis of false allegations and memberships in a terrorist organization ever since the Movement for Self Determination of Kabylie, although pacifistic, was wrongly classified as such by the current Algerian government;
  • Among these prisoners of conscience is Kamira Nait Sid, co-president of the World Amazigh Congress, an international NGO, who was a key speaker at a conference in 2016 with the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste and who visited the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa;
  • These arbitrary arrests violate international human rights law; and
  • Militias belonging to the Algerian secret police, called DRS, as well as security officers in the Algerian army, even dared to terrorize Kabyle villagers, including children and seniors, in the middle of the night.
We, the undersigned, Citizens of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to condemn this arbitrary situation carried out by the Algerian government as well as the equally arbitrary convictions and arrests, the victims of which are hundreds of prisoners of conscience, particularly of Kabyle origin, who are wallowing unjustly in prisons.
Open for signature
June 21, 2022, at 3:31 p.m. (EDT)
Closed for signature
October 19, 2022, at 3:31 p.m. (EDT)
Photo - Mario Beaulieu
La Pointe-de-l'Île
Bloc Québécois Caucus
Quebec