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Algerian deputies in the "People's Council" have launched a new draft law aimed at stripping citizenship from opponents and all critics of the Algerian military regime's policies, under the pretext of "harming the interests of the state or loyalty to a foreign country," in a move that reflects the regime's continued tightening of the noose on free voices and an attempt to silence all those who reveal its ugly truth to the internal and international public opinion.
Passing repressive decisions against opponents at home and abroad. This move comes after provocative statements by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who said in an interview with official television that Algeria has become "frightening to some," in a clear reference to the opponents who reveal the military institution's involvement in corruption and tyranny, before calling for what he called "cooperation against the traitor of the house," an expression that reflects the language of treason with which the regime attacks every free voice.
Deputy Hicham Seffar, a member of the "National Democratic Rally" party loyal to the military regime, announced the submission of the proposal to the office of the People's Council, to be studied and approved in the next session.
The authors of the proposal relied on Article 36 of the constitution, which the regime uses as a legal cover to pass its repressive decisions against opponents at home and abroad.
Tebboune's official speech about the "traitor of the house" came in the context of his attempts to justify the regime's failure internally and externally, by invoking "external conspiracies" and "foreign hands," which is the record that the military has been repeating for decades to justify repression and obscure the social and economic crises in which the country is drowning.
Stripping Walid Kbir of Algerian citizenship. Algerian opponent Walid Kbir pointed out in a previous post written on his official YouTube channel in a sarcastic manner that the Algerian military regime is preparing to strip him of his Algerian citizenship without indicating the reasons for that.
Under pressure from the popular movement in Algeria, Tebboune was forced in 2021 to temporarily back down from this law project, after the announcement of it caused a wave of widespread resentment within Algeria, to come out in a television interview justifying the retreat, saying that "the law was misunderstood," in a blatant attempt to absorb the popular anger.
Observers believe that the revival of this project later is nothing more than a new episode in the series of intimidation and treason that the military regime manages against its opponents to gag voices in a country that has turned into a large prison, in which freedoms are confiscated and anyone who dares to speak the truth is pursued.
Also, this amendment comes in the context of a wave of successive repressive legislation, the last of which was the "General Mobilization" law issued in June 2025, which aims to tighten the military's control over the state's resources and the opinions of citizens in a situation that indicates the return of the methods of the bygone black decade to the country.
