Algeria: Threats to Resume Executions After 30 Years Severe Blow to Human Rights

Algerian authorities must immediately abandon any plans to expand the death penalty or resume executions after more than three decades without carrying one out. Amnesty International calls for an official moratorium on the death penalty. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune instructed amendments to the Penal Code to reintroduce the death penalty for those who instigate fires, following devastating wildfires in the Kabylie region.