Yamina Meghraoui on Trial: Further Repression of Independent Women Trade Unionists in Algeria

Algeria – May 8, 2025 After more than a year and a half of judicial investigations, Yamina Maghraoui, a union leader and member of the National Secretariat of the Confederation of Trade Unions of Productive Forces (COSYFOP) and head of the Working Women’s Committee of the SNAPAP union, was referred to the Misdemeanor Court to face charges related to “spreading false news that could harm public order,” in accordance with Article 196 bis of the […]