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Algeria adopts death penalty for forest and field arson
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The official death toll from the wildfires is 12 people.
Algeria’s lower house adopted a law allowing the death penalty for certain arson and other acts, after wildfires killed at least 12 people. Human rights groups accused the government of targeting political opposition; the bill still requires upper-house review and presidential ratification.
2 sourcesBBC News, Al JazeeraUpdated
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Algeria’s national assembly approved a law allowing the death penalty for people convicted of deliberately setting fire to forests, woods or fields.
2 of 2 sources“The Algerian lower house has adopted a law that would allow the death penalty for those convicted of arson”
The law extends the death penalty to child abductions involving torture, sexual assault or mutilation.
“The death penalty has also been extended to child kidnappings that involve torture, sexual assault or mutilation.”