The present report highlights Amnesty International’s main concerns on the lack of investigations and public information into serious past and present human rights abuses and the impunity afforded to their alleged perpetrators. Amnesty hopes to contribute to the work of human rights defenders, victims and their families and others inside and outside of Algeria in their relentless struggle to ensure that the suffering of victims of human rights abuses is not forgotten, that the dignity of victims is restored, and that grave human rights abuses are never repeated. Amnesty International offers recommendations to the next president of Algeria. Amnesty recommends Algeria to ensure that the proposed draft law on the legal profession is in line with international standards on the independence of lawyers, including the Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers and that adequate safeguards are introduced in the provisions of the draft law to ensure that the right to fair trial is not undermined, by weakening the independence of lawyers.