Algeria has handed 49 death sentences to people convicted of killing Jamal Ben Smail in a town in the Kabylie region, in a verdict denounced as sham by rights activists. Ben Smail was killed by a mob in the village of Larbaa Naith Irathen accusing him of arson as the region faced a brutal wildfire […]
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Moroccan court sentences to death three murderers of Scandinavian tourists
Three suspects who pleaded guilty to the murder of a Danish and Norwegian backpackers in the mountains near Marrakech received the death sentence while a fourth man will spend his life in prison. The ringleader and two other terrorist ring members had told the court that they decided to commit the abject terrorist act in […]

