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FILE - In this July 2, 2020 file photo, activist Karim Tabbou flashes a victory sign as he is greeted by supporters as he is released from the prison of Kolea, west of Algiers. A politician and a journalist who are prominent opposition figures in Algeria have been arrested days ahead of the country's parliamentary election, according to a group of lawyers defending jailed activists of the pro-democracy movement. The National Committee for the Liberation of the Detained said politician Karim Tabbou was arrested Thursday night at his home in the southwestern suburbs of Algiers. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul, FILE)
Algeria votes for new parliament but activists plan boycott

Jun. 12, 2021 02:36 AM EDT

FILE - In this May 7, 2021 file photo, demonstrators supporting the Hirak pro-democracy movement are pushed by police officers in Algiers, Friday, May 7, 2021. A crackdown on the pro-democracy Hirak movement, with hundreds arrested around Algeria during last week's 117th Friday march, casts a pall over presidential efforts to give a new face to a nation whose army plays a backseat role in governance. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul, File)
Hope, tension mark kickoff of Algerian election campaign

May. 21, 2021 11:31 AM EDT

Algerian students demonstrate, one with a poster reading "The right to defend our rights" in Algiers, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Protesters took to the streets of Algiers and other cities around Algeria last Friday in a bid to restart weekly pro-democracy demonstrations. (AP Photo/Fateh Guidoum)
Algerian students restart weekly protests cut off by virus

Mar. 02, 2021 12:57 PM EST

A man closes a restaurant while Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune speaks on television, Thursday, Feb.18, 2021 in Algiers. Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced he will dissolve parliament to pave the way for new elections and ordered the release of 32 protesters whose pro-democracy movement pushed out his predecessor two years ago. However he didn't set a date for the elections yet, and protesters want deeper change to Algeria's still-secretive power structure. (AP Photo/Fateh Guidoum)
Algerian president dissolves parliament, frees prisoners

Feb. 18, 2021 04:40 PM EST

Algeria leader back to Germany for COVID-19-linked treatment

Jan. 10, 2021 12:17 PM EST
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune returned Sunday to Germany, where he spent two months for treatment of a COVID-19 infection,...

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019 file photo, Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune delivers a speech during an inauguration ceremony in the presidential palace, in Algiers, Algeria. Still recovering from COVID-19, Algeria's president suddenly reappeared Sunday Dec. 13, 2020, after nearly two months out of the public eye, saying in a video message that it may still be several more weeks before he is fit enough to return to his North African country. (AP Photo/Toufik Doudou, File)
President returns to Algeria, reports recovery from COVID-19

Dec. 29, 2020 04:06 PM EST

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019 file photo, Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune delivers a speech during an inauguration ceremony in the presidential palace, in Algiers, Algeria. Still recovering from COVID-19, Algeria's president suddenly reappeared Sunday Dec. 13, 2020, after nearly two months out of the public eye, saying in a video message that it may still be several more weeks before he is fit enough to return to his North African country. (AP Photo/Toufik Doudou, File)
After battling virus, Algerian leader suddenly reappears

Dec. 13, 2020 12:54 PM EST

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019 file photo, Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune delivers a speech during an inauguration ceremony in the presidential palace, in Algiers, Algeria. Tebboune has been transferred to Germany for specialist medical treatment a day after his country’s presidency announced he had been hospitalized but not revealed why. Several senior officials in the 75-year-old president’s entourage developed COVID-19 symptoms on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020 and the president was placed in what the government called “voluntary preventive confinement.” (AP Photo/Toufik Doudou, FILE)
Algerian president finishes virus treatment, undergoes tests

Nov. 15, 2020 11:54 AM EST