đź“… 28 June 1881
The law of 28 June 1881 formalised a special administrative and penal regime for Algerians classified as “indigènes.” It enabled punishment through administrative authority and offences that did not...
đź“… 27 June 1888
The law of 27 June 1888 extended for two years the exceptional regime established in 1881. Repeated renewal shows that legal inequality was maintained through ordinary legislative procedures, rather...
đź“… 4 August 1920
A law of 4 August 1920 modified provisions of the 1919 legislation concerning political rights for Algerian “indigènes.” The change belongs to a sequence of tightly limited reforms that managed...
đź“… 16 March 1946
The French Constituent Assembly voted an amnesty law concerning prosecutions connected with the May 1945 events. Amnesty followed executions, mass arrests, and an uneven process of judicial...
đź“… 20 September 1947
The organic statute presented Algeria as having a degree of internal autonomy, but retained French sovereignty and a two-college electoral system that gave European settlers representation...
