Algerian opposition figure arrested | Africanews

Algerian authorities detained opposition figure Fethi Ghares on Tuesday, according to reports from his wife and the Algerian prisoners’ rights group CNLD.

Ghares, who once led the now-banned leftist Democratic and Social Movement party, was apprehended by plainclothes officers at his home in Algiers, the capital.

His wife, Messaouda Cheballah, who is also active in politics, shared in a video on Facebook that the police claimed they…