Algeria trial of four Christians on charges of opening a place of worship
Algeria trial of four Christians on charges of opening a place of worship
Algeria: Sunday begins the trial of four Algerian Christian converts accused of "open place of worship without a license" before the Court of Misdemeanors in Ravae Nath Ahiratn tribal area (east of Algiers) on said one of the accused's lawyer told AFP.
Said Mohamed Ben Belgacem, "The prosecuted people aged between 35 and 45 years old accused of opening a Protestant temple without prior permission from the authorities." He explained that "one of them also accused of harboring a priest French illegally came to Algeria to deliver a lecture before members of a group of Christians in the region."
After the trial was expected on the tenth of October was postponed at the request of the court requested the attendance of witnesses. 2006. The subject of religious practices in Algeria, whether Islamic or other authorization to specify the place and overseen by virtue of the law was issued in February 2006.
And tried many of the Algerians in recent months on charges of "prejudice to the rituals of Islam," In the forefront of people converted to Christianity.
And the rule of the man in the middle of October to two years imprisonment with force and a fine of one hundred thousand dinars (about thousand euros) for that mushroom during Ramadan at the end of August in the town or residuals (500 km) southeast of Algiers, which according to the Algerian press. However, the Attorney General later said that the ruling on that young man was released because he was not fungus, but because it had destroyed private property and smashed the glass with his head a police station. And evacuated for Christians who were dining in the fifth of Ramadan in October last in the eye of the bathroom in the Kabylie region (east), after the prosecutor's request that Isjna three years with the force.
The Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia on October 21 before the National People's Assembly (parliament) that the freedom of worship will be "always guaranteed" in Algeria, where Islam is the religion of the state.
