Algeria refutes US report on corruption, human rights

Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra on Saturday refuted accusations against Algeria in the latest report of the U.S. State Department on corruption and human rights.

"There are red lines not to exceed," Lamamra told reporters on the margin of the visit he is paying to the eastern province of Constantine with Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal.

"We are exercising our sovereignty in our free and independent country," he stressed.

In its 2015 report on human rights, the U.S. State Department noted that the government in Algeria is not making enough efforts to fight corruption, as it does not "properly implement" the law on the fight against this plague.

The report is based on non-governmental organization data to classify countries according to criteria such as human rights, corruption, gender equality, the situation of migrants, and else.

Source: XINHUA