Zaalani: Bureaucracy is the biggest challenge that hinders human rights – Al-Hiwar Al-Jazaeryia

The head of the National Council for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights, Abd al-Majid Zaalani, considered that bureaucracy represents 50 percent of the major challenges facing and impeding progress in the application of human rights.

Today, Thursday, Zaalani pledged, in an interview with the national radio, to work in the long term with the mediator of the republic and the various state agencies to bridge the gap between the administration and the citizen, and said that he intends to submit recommendations on the subject to the presidency of the republic within the next annual report.

The head of the National Council for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights, Abdelmadjid Zaalani, affirmed that Algeria respects the principles of human rights and is working to expand the scope of freedoms despite some shortcomings recorded in this field, adding that the Council, as a constitutional institution, works in coordination with various state agencies and institutions to address these issues. Shortcomings and minimizing them according to an approach based on calm and gradual.

On the issue of overcrowding inside prisons, Zaalani affirmed that the situation in general is improving continuously compared to the past years, especially after the opening of more penal institutions to improve the conditions of prisoners at a time when the country is witnessing an escalation in crime rates, despite their multiplicity, led by “neighborhood gangs.”