An Algerian judicial council has ordered the dissolution of a youth association linked to a protest movement and suspended a leftist opposition party, the council said on Thursday.
The Council of State gave no reason for its decision to dissolve Rassemblement Actions Jeunesse Algerienne, which had already been barred from activity, or to suspend the Mouvement Democratique et Social.
Algeria has in recent months stepped up a crackdown on dissent, rights groups say, after having quashed the "Hirak" mass protest movement that mobilised hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in weekly protests from 2019-20.
