Algeria doles out hefty jail terms for two former premiers
The two are charged with corruption and received 15 and 12 year sentences, but protesters don’t believe much will change in the country
10 December 2019 - 18:12
Algiers — An Algerian court sentenced two former prime ministers to long jail terms on Tuesday in the first of a series of high-profile corruption trials launched after president Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned in the face of mass protests in April.
The verdicts came just two days before Algeria is due to elect a president to replace Bouteflika in a vote bitterly opposed by the country’s nine-month-old protest movement, which sees it as a regime ploy to cling to power...
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