Algeria Headlines

Activists denounce death sentences handed by Algeria to cover killing of Jamal Ben Smail

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 […]