2025

The penal code, which was amended in 2025, includes new articles criminalizing marital violence, whether committed against women or in public places, and imposing harsher penalties on perpetrators,.

The Penal Code recognized the right of women and classified them into three types of special protection, as it criminalized a group of acts committed by husbands: physical violence, verbal violence, and economic violence.

Domestic Physical Violence (Article 266 ) , Physical Violence: Article 266 bis provides for the protection of the wife from intentional assaults that cause injury, disability, amputation, or death.

Verbal Violence: Article 266 bis of the Penal Code criminalizes any form of verbal or psychological assault or violence, with a penalty of one to three years in prison.

Domestic Economic Violence (Article 330) Economic Violence: Article 330 bis punishes any form of coercion or intimidation practiced by the husband to dispose of the wife's property and financial resources with imprisonment of six months to two years.

Domestic Violence (Article 331 - The crime of failure to pay alimony): If the husband refuses to pay the full amount of alimony due to the wife, the penalty shall be imprisonment for 6 months to 2 years and a fine.

Domestic Violence ( Article 330 -The crime of family neglect), when the husband abandons his wife for a period exceeding two months without a serious reason, and the penalty is imprisonment from six months to three years.

Domestic violence committed by other family members or household members (Article 333 bis 3 ) stipulates that any assault committed surreptitiously, shall be punishable by imprisonment from one to three years and a fine. The penalty shall be imprisonment from two to five years if the perpetrator is a relative, the victim is a minor under 16 years of age, or if the victim's weakness, illness, disability, physical or mental incapacity, or pregnancy.

Sexual harassment and violence in public places: (Article 333 bis 02) stipulates that anyone who harasses a woman in a public place by any act, word or gesture that offends her modesty shall be punished with imprisonment from two to six months and a fine. The penalty shall be doubled if the victim is a minor under the age of 16.

Sexual harassment in educational settings, workplaces, etc.: ( Article 341 bis), anyone who exploits the authority of his position or profession by issuing orders to others, threatening, coercing, or exerting pressure on them with the intent of forcing them to respond to his sexual desiresis punishable by imprisonment for a period of one to three years and a fine.

Progress Report on the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action within the Beijing+30 Review, Algeria, 2024