Amnesty International Sunday urged Algeria to adopt a law on the right to asylum and to open an investigation into the deportation of sub-Saharan migrants from the country this month. "The authorities should decriminalise irregular immigration, adopt a law on (the right to) asylum and fight racism against sub-Saharans in the country," the group's Algeria office said in a statement in French.
A draft law on the right to asylum has been in the works for five years, Amnesty said.
The statement comes after Algeria on Saturday defended its treatment of a group of around 260 Malian migrants rounded up and deported to their country at the start of December, dismissing charges of brutality. Amnesty called on Algiers "to open up a prompt and impartial inquiry into the cases of arbitrary expulsions and allegations of mistreatment".
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