FIS banned, leaders jailed — Algeria slides into civil war

An Algiers court dissolved the FIS on 4 March 1992; leaders Abbassi Madani and Ali Benhadj had already been arrested (and were later sentenced to 12 years), and thousands of members were detained in desert camps. The crushing of the electoral path drove armed Islamist groups to insurgency, igniting a civil war that killed an estimated 200,000 Algerians during the 1990s "Black Decade."

Referenced entities

Parties

Islamic Salvation Front

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APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). FIS banned, leaders jailed — Algeria slides into civil war [Event record]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/b580ce1e-6047-4228-b787-c207452ed04a

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "FIS banned, leaders jailed — Algeria slides into civil war." Event record, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/b580ce1e-6047-4228-b787-c207452ed04a.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-event-b580ce1e-6047-4228-b787-c207452ed04a,
  title     = {{FIS banned, leaders jailed — Algeria slides into civil war}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Event record},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/b580ce1e-6047-4228-b787-c207452ed04a},
  urldate   = {2026-07-27},
  note      = {Event date: 1992-03-04. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

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APA 7Preprint

Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-07-27},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

Event date: 1992-03-04. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.