Rights defenders slam Spain’s deportation of Algerian dissident

Algerian whistleblower Mohamed Benhalima at the foreign internment camp in Valencia, Spain [Courtesy of Adrián Vives]

Late last month, Algerian whistleblower and former gendarme Mohamed Benhalima made some bleak predictions for what lay ahead of him.

“If I go back to Algeria, they are going to violate my human rights. Prison and torture await me,” he told the local Spanish media outlet Levante EMV while detained in a foreign internment camp in Valencia, southeastern Spain.