Mohamed Ali Haroun was an Algerian lawyer and politician, a veteran of the War of Independence who joined the National Liberation Front in 1954. He sat in independent Algeria’s first constituent assembly, became minister delegate for human rights in 1991 and served on the High Council of State from 1992 to 1994. He died on 24 October 2026 at the age of 99.
He was born in Bir Mourad Raïs, Algiers, on 8 February 1927.