Hocine Aït Ahmed

Who is Hocine Aït Ahmed?

Hocine Aït Ahmed is an Algerian politician. Founder and leader until 2009 of the historical political opposition in Algeria.

After the war for Algerian independence, during which he was one of the main leaders of the National Liberation Front, Aït Ahmed resigned from the provisional Government of the Algerian Republic and all the organs of the new power, during the crisis of the summer 1962. In September 1963, he founded the Socialist Forces Front which seeks political pluralism in political life locked by the single party system.

Arrested and sentenced to death in 1964, he escaped from the El Harrach prison on May 1, 1966. Exiled in Switzerland, he became a doctor of law. He returned to Algeria after the riots of 1988 but again left his country after the assassination of the President, Mohamed Boudiaf, in 1992. He had repeatedly returned to Algeria since then, including during the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the war of liberation.