Member State of the African Union Member State of the Arab League The Friends of the Manifesto and Liberty (French: Amis du Manifeste et de la Liberté, AML) was a political movement in French Algeria.
The party was founded in March 1944 by Ferhat Abbas in order to publicize and defend the Manifesto of the Algerian People.
[1] Its demands included equal rights for the Muslim population and an autonomous Algeria federated with France.
However, French officials refused to speak the party and used the Sétif disturbances of May 8, 1945 as a pretext for dissolving it and arresting Abbas.
A similar movement, the Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto was founded the following year.