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Algeria. The summer university of an association at the forefront of forbidden protest

2019-08-27T16:46:45.019Z


The summer school organized by the Rassemblement Action Jeunesse (RAJ), in connection with the unprecedented protest movement in Algeria since last February, the "Hirak", was banned by the authorities, said the RAJ Tuesday, August 27 .


The summer school organized by the Rassemblement Action Jeunesse (RAJ), in connection with the unprecedented protest movement in Algeria since last February, the "Hirak", was banned by the authorities, said the RAJ Tuesday, August 27 .

The Algerian authorities on Tuesday banned the summer university of a leading citizen association in the "Hirak" , the unprecedented protest movement that Algeria has been playing since February 22, announced it, the Youth Action Rally (RAJ).

"The wilaya (prefecture) of Bejaia has just banned the holding of the RAJ summer university originally scheduled for August 28, 29 and 30, 2019" in the locality of Tichy, about 200 km east of Algiers, said the RAJ on its Facebook page.

No motive accompanied this decision, said Abdelouhab Fersaoui, president of RAJ. "However, we have organized our summer schools in the same place since 2012 and have always obtained authorizations," he said.

"Willingness to break social dynamics"

"At the moment when power calls for dialogue, it prevents Algerians from meeting and debating. There is a desire to break the social dynamic that lives in Algeria, " Abdelouhab Fersaoui also regretted.

Created in 1992, the association aims to "mobilize young people on citizenship issues , " according to its Facebook page.

Contacted, no person in charge of the communication was available to the wilaya of Bejaia. The president of RAJ attributes this ban to the stated opposition of the RAJ - and many other civic associations - to the presidential election that wants to quickly organize the power to elect a successor to Abdelaziz Bouteflika, forced to resign by the street on April 2.

Organization of the presidential

"Any discordant voice compared to the official voice, that of real power embodied by the staff of the army, is not welcome," said Abdelouhab Fersaoui.

On Monday, the army chief of staff, General Ahmed Gaïd Salah, strongman of the country since the resignation of Abdelaziz Bouteflika, demanded that the organization of the presidential election be accelerated.

"The power does not show willingness to respond to the demands of the people, he only cares to pass his road map, which is the organization of the presidential election. But to organize the presidential election in the current state is only to maintain the "system" [in power] alive, " continued the president of RAJ.

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