Algeria sentences six Islamists to death
Convicted for 2009 attack that killed 19
A criminal court in eastern Algeria sentenced six people to death Saturday for a 2009 attack that killed 19 people and for which al-Qaeda claimed responsibility, APS news agency reported.
The court in Constantine also handed four others two-year prison sentences for "supporting a terrorist group," it said. Another 15 were acquitted, while sentencing for a last defendant, still at large, has been postponed.
Algeria has not applied the death sentence since 1993.