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Algeria: Three members of former powerful intelligence service sentenced to death

A military court in Blida, 45 km South-west of Algiers, has pressed death sentence against three members of the former powerful Security and Intelligence Directorate (DRS) for providing intelligence to foreign countries. Former President Abdelaziz Bouetflika had dismantled the DRS few years ago and put the institution’s powerful head, Mohamed Mediene, aka Toufik, on retirement. […]