Geneva - Algeria told the UN Human Rights Committee yesterday it had no human rights problem. In a report to the committee, the government said it was aware of just one case of a suspicious death in police custody.
"There is the emergence of a terrorism phenomenon. [But] there has been no indication whatsoever of a large number of extra judicial killings [by government forces]," Algeria's ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Mr Mohamed-Salah Dembri, said.
An estimated 65,000 people have died in killings officially blamed on Islamist "terrorists" or on clashes between security forces and Islamist rebels, but rights groups lay some of the blame on death squads with links to the army.