National Union of Bar Associations (UNOA)
Algerian legal fraternity protests detention of lawyer-activist Abderaouf Arslane
Abderaouf Arslane is in pre-trial detention since May 25 on charges of being associated with the banned Islamist Rachad movement. His supporters say he is being persecuted for being part of the Hirak protests
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