2010-11-09
An Algerian court on Monday (November 8th) acquitted eight people charged with failure to observe the Ramadan fast. The defendants, arrested last August in Ighzer Amokrane, Bejaia wilaya, had faced prison terms of 2-5 years. "This is a great victory for human rights and freedom of conscience and worship in Algeria," Tout sur l'Algerie quoted Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH) official Said Salhi as saying. Two Algerian Christians who had also faced prison time for failure to observe the Ramadan fast were acquitted last month in Tizi-Ouzou.
Source: Magharebia.com.
Link: http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/newsbriefs/general/2010/11/09/newsbrief-04.
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