Algeria: Description of the conscription notice served by the military, including title, layout, size, colours, official signatures required, and any other identifying characteristics, and information on the service procedures
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 January 1999 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | DZA30914.E |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Algeria: Description of the conscription notice served by the military, including title, layout, size, colours, official signatures required, and any other identifying characteristics, and information on the service procedures, 1 January 1999, DZA30914.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ab5c24.html [accessed 6 June 2023] |
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Information on the recruitment process is scarce. For information on call-up notices, please consult the attached document by War Resisters' International entitled Refusing to Bear Arms: A World Survey of Conscription and Conscientious Objection to Military Service (Sept. 1998).
The following information was provided during a 5 January 1999 telephone interview with a researcher on Algeria at the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales (CERI), an institution affiliated to the Foundation nationale de sciences politiques (FNSP) de Paris. The CERI researcher, who has recently published a book on the Algerian civil war, has also published articles on Algeria in academic reviews such as Politique internationale and Politique étrangère.
The method use to service call-up notices is by mail. Each call-up notice has a code referring to a general computer file at the recruitment office of the army. Algerian diplomatic missions can authentify the code and provide information on the validity of the document. The researcher stated that there are many false call-up notices currently in circulation and it is very difficult to distinguish valid documents from fraudulent ones. Only the authentification of the code on the call-up notice can validate or not a call-up notice for military service.
The researcher could not provide additional information on the description of call-up notice.
Since all recruitment files are on computer, a young male of military service age would not be allowed to exit the country without proper exemption papers or proof he performed his military duties.
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.
Reference
Researcher, Centre d'études et de recherches internationales (CERI), Paris, France. 5 January 1999. Telephone interview.
Attachment
War Resisters' International. September 1998. Bart Horeman and Marc Stolwijk. Refusing to Bear Arms: A World Survey of Conscription and Conscientious Objection to Military Service, pp. 22-24.
