الجزائريون في السجون و المعتقلات و المحتشدات و مراكز التعذيب أثناء الثورة التحريرية

Abstract EN

Since the occupation of Algeria, the French colonial administration has adopted various methods of repression and torture, and brought to Algeria experts in the methods of torture and interrogation.

After the outbreak of the revolution, pursued its policy of diversification of repression and the participation of population methods in prisons and concentration camps and torture centers and detention centers, to eliminate the revolution, separated the popular support, and to prevent any assistance or contact or news of the population.

This is why these centers scattered in various parts of the country has reached the number of camps set up by the colonial authorities across the national territory to more than 2,500 camps, which has housed nearly three million algerians.

The colonial authorities exercised against them various types of physical and psychological torture.

Prisons are mostly transit centers, for those who are arrested in most without judicial precedents and turning them into prisons.

The detention centers its in two types, civilian is competent civilian, and military competent is competent to the mudjahidines who are arrested after the battles.

Prisons are centers surrounded by walls, It is above the iron bars, fenced with barbed wire, Some of them electrified, Prisons were attributed during the revolution to the mudjahidines and Accused of belonging to the National Liberation Front, they were staying in rooms and cells according to their sentences.

Despite the cruelty of these centers to the Algerians, the revolution has transformed camps and detention centers and prisons into political training centers, forming cells and committees within them, and educating detainees, The inevitability of the revolution and the need to work on the cracking of French colonial programs.

Emphasis was placed on education, political awareness, and to unify the ranks of detainees and prisoners.