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Category: Algeria

ALGERIA: Three more churches closed

Posted on 24Oct20194th November 2019Categories Algeria
ALGERIA: Three more churches closed

Algerian authorities have sealed the buildings of three more churches, including the country’s two largest.

ALGERIA: Church closure campaign intensifies

Posted on 01Oct201914th October 2019Categories Algeria
ALGERIA: Church closure campaign intensifies

On 26 September, Algerian authorities closed a church building in Tizi Ouzou province, two days after closing another church in the same province.

ALGERIA: Several churches illegally closed

Posted on 13Jun201926th June 2019Categories Algeria
ALGERIA: Several churches illegally closed

Christian places of worship continue to be targeted by authorities and churches are closed despite having applied for permits.

ALGERIA: Slimane Bouhafs released from prison

Posted on 04Apr201819th April 2018Categories Algeria
ALGERIA: Slimane Bouhafs released from prison

Slimane Bouhafs has been released from prison at the end of his twenty-month sentence for “insulting Islam and the Prophet Mohammad”.

ALGERIA: Christian sentenced to five years in prison for blasphemy

Posted on 19Aug201619th January 2017Categories Algeria

An Algerian Christian has been sentenced to five years in prison – the maximum term – and heavily fined for blasphemy against Islam and its prophet. [Update September 2015: the sentence has been reduced on appeal to three years, and the fine has been dropped. The Algerian League for Human Rights says it will take the case to the Supreme Court.]

ALGERIA: Five-year prison term for giving away a CD

Posted on 17Jun201121st October 2016Categories Algeria

On 25 May 2011 a judge in Oran, 470 km west of Algiers, convicted Siaghi Krimo of insulting the prophet Muhammad and sentenced him to five years in prison.

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