On 23 May 2025, the Collective of Families of the Disappeared in Algeria (CFDA) published a press release denouncing an intensification of attacks on its activities. The CFDA, which has been advocating since 1998 for truth and justice regarding enforced disappearances during Algeria’s civil conflict in the 1990s, reports a series of coordinated attacks aimed at silencing its work. Two recent events organised in Algiers were banned and physically blocked by the police. Two recent public events organized by the CFDA in Algiers were banned and forcibly disrupted by police forces. Simultaneously, the organization’s digital presence has come under siege: its online radio platform, Radio des Sans Voix, is now inaccessible; the Memorial to the Disappeared website has been destroyed; and the CFDA’s main website is blocked within Algeria. The CFDA views these actions as part of a broader effort to erase historical memory and suppress civil society’s role in truth-telling and documentation.
