The Hirak protest movement, which demanded a sweeping overhaul of the ruling system in place since independence, has accused President Abdelmadjid Tebboune of having links with the Bouteflika regime and Algeria s powerful military
Hundreds of Algerians rallied Tuesday to mark some of the first Hirak protests, two years into the mass movement which swept former strongman Abdelaziz Bouteflika from power. Defying coronavirus restrictions and a ban on protests, hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the centre of Kherrata, seen ..
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11 Feb 2021
Authorities in northwest Algeria have convicted a Christian man from a Muslim background of blasphemy and sentenced him to five years in prison for the charge, the Christian aid agency Barnabas Fund reported on Thursday.
Police in the port city of Arzew summoned the 43-year-old man for questioning on January 20 after he was accused of “insulting the prophet of Islam” by sharing a cartoon image of Muhammad on his Facebook account in 2018. Arzew authorities tried and found the man guilty for blasphemy days later, assigning him a maximum five-year prison sentence for the crime.
The man, whose name was not reported by Barnabas, “converted to Christianity in 2001 and is married with four young children,” according to the agency, which supports Christians who suffer discrimination for their faith.