The decision was not surprising, but nonetheless “extremely shocking and worrying”. With these words, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), a Paris-based umbrella federation of countless human rights organisations from around the world, commented on the official dissolution of the Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights (Ligue Algerienne pour la Defense des Droits de lˈHomme, LADDH).
In the view of the successive…