UN rights experts urged the Court of Algiers on April 28 to stop the trial of Mohamed Tadjadit, noting that the “reclassified” charges the prominent activist now faces are punishable by death. A poet and human rights defender, Tadjadit is associated with the Hirak movement, which first arose in 2019 in opposition to then-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika and has since evolved into a wider call for political change and greater freedoms. Tadjadit was…