An Algerian appeals court Wednesday slashed a heavy jail sentence against activist Yacine Mebarki, convicted of “offending Islam” amid a crackdown against an opposition protest movement. The court reduced Mebarki’s prison term from 10 years to one after upholding convictions including “offending the precepts of (Islam)”, but overturning others with heavier sentences including “profaning the Koran”, wrote lawyer Hachem Saci on Facebook. Mebarki,…
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