Rights group condemns Algeria after mass death sentences
Amnesty International has urged Algeria to annul death penalties against dozens of people over the lynching of a man falsely accused of starting deadly forest fires. A court in November sentenced 49 people to death for the 2021 lynching of 38-year-old Djamel Ben Ismail outside a police station in the Tizi Ouzou region. According to Amnesty, a further five people, including a woman, received death sentences in absentia. The sentences are unlikely […]
