04-10-2023, 02:19 PM
He was arrested at gunpoint.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/133057854/...-in-prison
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/133057854/...-in-prison
"New Zealand citizen and Algerian democracy activist Ahmed Zaoui has been arrested in Algeria by government security services, prominent human rights lawyer Deborah Manning has told Stuff.
Manning said Zaoui was arrested at gunpoint by Algerian security forces on Tuesday morning in Medea Algeria at 5.30am (local time) for holding a political meeting at his home and making comment on the Algerian political and human rights situation.
“He was at home having tea with his family and eight men with balaclavas came in from special forces saying that they were on orders from the capital in Algiers to take him in for interrogation,” she said.
“He is currently being detained in a police station jail. His wife was able to visit him... The family is, of course, very concerned and working with NZ Consular affairs.”
Zaoui is a dual New Zealand and Algerian citizen and entered Algeria on a New Zealand passport.
Manning said he had returned to Algeria to be with family in recent years as the political situation appeared to be settling.
“Zaoui has continued to espouse messages of peace and dialogue, and those messages have seen him being arrested for political reasons,” Manning said.
Zaoui was planning to return to New Zealand later this year and to live between Algeria and New Zealand."
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
