Mohamed Larbi Zitout

Who is Mohamed Larbi Zitout?

Mohamed Larbi Zitout.

After graduating from the Ecole Nationale d'Administration in Algiers and obtaining a master's degree in International Relations, he pursued a career in diplomacy. By 1995, he was a low key civil servant in Libya,In 1995, however - three years into the Algerian Civil War - he resigned from his position and emigrated to the United Kingdom.

Since leaving Libya, he has become an outspoken opponent of the Algerian government and human rights advocate. He has been interviewed or appeared as a commentator in a number of newspapers and broadcast media, such as the BBC, ABC and Al-Jazeera, and has contributed chapters to An Inquiry into the Algerian Massacres and Quelle réconciliation pour l'Algérie? He is a founding member of Justitia Universalis, a human rights organisation set up in 2001 dedicated to fighting impunity.