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Switzerland: Police officer sentenced

01 January 1998

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A Swiss police officer was given an 18-month suspended sentence, and his informant 15 months in jail, for gathering a list of 300 to 400 Algerians living in Switzerland for the Algerian authorities. The officer is now back in the Geneva police force. These sentences resulted from a case brought by 14 Algerians against the officer. At least four Algerians on the lists were arrested, jailed and tortured when they returned to Algeria. The indiscriminate list appeared to include the names of men who simply attended worship at Geneva's mosque. One of the Algerians described how he had been jailed and tortured for five days. He was released by a sympathetic police officer, went into hiding for over a year before returning to Switzerland where he has been given political asylum.

International Herald Tribune, 9.2.98.

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