The Algerian government covered up how approximately 100 inmates died during thesuppression of an uprising at Serkadji prison in February 1995, the bloodiest incident during the first three years of civil strife in the country. Authorities violated the most basic norms for investigating extrajudicial killings: the dead were buried without autopsies; no truly independent panel was permitted to conduct an on-site investigation; and no specific explanations have been offered as to how the prisoners died.
Algeria: Six Months Later, Cover-Up Continues in Prison Clash that Left 100 Inmates Dead
Report by Defense Lawyers Charges Inmates Were Deliberately Massacred