Mostefa Bouchachi
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Mostefa Bouchachi (Arabic: مصطفى بوشاشي; born in 1954 in Sidi Abdelaziz, in the current Jijel Province, Algeria) is an Algerian lawyer and politician.
He was the President of the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH) from 2007 to 2012.[1]
Mostefa Bouchachi was born in 1954 in Mechta Aazib, Douar Bouyoucef Current commune of Sidi Abdelaziz in Jijel Province.[2]
As the son of a shahid (martyr of the revolution) he was educated after 1962 in a martyr's children's center in Oued Aïssi, near Tizi-Ouzou.[3]
Coming from a family of revolutionaries, Mostefa was only 6 years old when his father Mokhtar, moudjahid, was killed in 1960 during a bombardment in Wilaya.[4]
Education
Mostefa continued his secondary studies at the Colonel Amirouche high school in the same town of Tizi Ouzou.[5]
After obtaining the baccalaureate, Mostefa Bouchachi moved to Algiers and began a graduate course at the Faculty of Law of the University of Algiers.[6]
Mostefa Bouchachi obtained a magister degree in law from the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom where he was sent as part of an Algerian state scholarship.[7]
Professional career
In the early 1980s, back in Algiers after his studies in the United Kingdom, Mostefa Bouchachi taught at the law faculty of the University of Algiers.[8]
He taught courses in criminal procedure.[9]
He also registered with the Algiers Bar to practice as a lawyer.[10]
