Algeria: Repression Targets Kabyle people
On December 30, 2025, Algerian gendarmerie officers brutally arrested Kabyle journalist and writer Allas Di Tlelli at his home in the village of Ait-Buaddu, in Kabylia. His home was searched, and his computer and other personal belongings were seized. After a week in police custody, he was placed in pretrial detention.
Aside from his writings promoting the Kabyle and Amazigh language and culture, as well as fundamental rights and freedoms, there is absolutely nothing to reproach Allas Di Tlelli for. Legally, he has not broken any laws or regulations. Consequently, the reasons for his arrest and detention can only be political. They are certainly linked to the fact that Allas Di Tlelli is a free voice who refuses to be silenced in the face of the oppression of his people.
Over the past five years in particular, repression in Algeria has been systematic, reaching a level of ferocity never before seen. In Kabylia, not a day goes by without arrests, summonses, intimidation, searches, abductions, torture, accusations, and convictions, including death sentences. Thousands of private, family, social, and professional lives are being crushed with complete impunity. This violent oppression targets all Amazighs, but especially the Kabyles, as they form the last bastion of Amazigh resistance preventing Algeria's total subjugation to Arab-Islamic imperialism. In January 2026 alone, more than 50 Kabyles were summoned before Algerian criminal courts for "terrorism" and/or "undermining national unity," even though they had only peacefully demonstrated their commitment to their rights, freedoms, and Kabyle-Amazigh identity.
The Algerian regime arbitrarily punishes individuals, but through them, it aims for the total annihilation of the indigenous Kabyle and Amazigh peoples. This is a genocidal objective.
Furthermore, the Algerian regime is a constant source of instability for the country and a regional threat. Given the gravity of Algerian practices against the Amazigh people, and Kabyles in particular, the World Amazigh Congress (CMA) calls upon the United Nations, of which Algeria is a member, to urgently request that the Amazigh people of Algeria be placed under international protection.
In the immediate term, the CMA insists that all relevant UN, AU, and EU bodies demand the immediate release of all Kabyle and Amazigh political prisoners in Algeria. These bodies must not allow the Algerian dictatorship to continue violating international law with impunity.
Paris, December 28, 2975 – January 8, 2026
The Board of CMA