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House Hansard - 171

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
March 22, 2023 01:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 171 - Mar/22/23
Mr. Mario Beaulieu (La Pointe-de-l'Île, BQ)
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Madam Speaker, it is in solidarity with the Kabyle and Algerian people that I table petitions 12158298 and 12245272. Since December 2019, there has been a crackdown on Algerian citizens, specifically Kabyles, who have been arbitrarily arrested for publicly expressing their political opinions. Human rights organizations have identified more than 500 people unjustly imprisoned in Algeria on the basis of false allegations of membership in a terrorist organization, since the pacifist Movement for the Self-Determination of Kabylia was wrongfully declared as such by the current Algerian government. The petitioners are calling on the Government of Canada to condemn this arbitrary situation in Algeria as well as the equally arbitrary arrests and convictions of these hundreds of prisoners of conscience, particularly Kabyles, who are unjustly languishing in prison. In closing, I want to congratulate Mr. Rachid Bandou, who officially started this petition.
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