Algeria
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- presidential republic
- CONSTITUTION
- September 8, 1963 effective November 22, 1976, amended several times, last on November 12, 2008
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- socialist, based on the French and Islamic models
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, National People's Assembly (Al-Majlis Ech-Chaabi Al-Watani) and Council of Nations
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court, Constitutional Council. The Algerian legal system does not include a sharia court
RELIGIONS
99% Sunni Muslims; 1% Christians and Jews
From the country
OCTOBER 24, 2023AlgeriaDEATH PENALTYALGERIA: DEATH SENTENCES FOR 38 OVER FIRES VOLUNTEER LYNCHING
An Algerian appellate court upheld the death sentence on October 23, 2023 for 38 individuals found guilty of the murder of Jamal Ben Ismail.
NOVEMBER 27, 2022AlgeriaDEATH PENALTYALGERIA: 49 DEFENDANTS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DJAMEL BENSMAIL’S MURDER
Algeria’s Criminal Court of First Instance in Algiers on 24 November 2022 sentenced 49 people involved in the murder of Djamel Bensmail to the death penalty.
NOVEMBER 24, 2022AlgeriaDEATH PENALTYALGERIA: CALLS FOR DEATH PENALTY AS 70 PEOPLE ON TRIAL WITH BURNING A PERSON ALIVE
Algerian Public Prosecution requested on 19 November 2022 the death penalty against more than 70 people charged with torturing a man, burning him alive and mutilating his body.
OCTOBER 22, 2022AlgeriaDEATH PENALTYALGERIA: JOURNALIST SENTENCED TO DEATH PENALTY
An Algerian court handed a death penalty sentence this week to journalist Abderrahmane Semmar known as Abdou Semmar, Morocco World News reported on 20 October 2022.
MAY 17, 2022AlgeriaDEATH PENALTYALGERIA: EX-ARMY CHIEF'S ALLY SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ‘TREASON’
An Algerian military officer and close ally of the former army chief has been sentenced to death over charges of “high treason”, the French-language daily El Watan reported on 15 May 2022.
MARCH 25, 2021AlgeriaDEATH PENALTYALGERIA: MUEZZIN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SLITTING THROAT OF HIS PREGNANT WIFE
A 42-year-old muezzin has been sentenced to death in Algeria for stabbing and slitting the throat of his wife - who was pregnant with twins - in a crime that shocked Algerian society, Gulf News reported on 21 March 2021.
- FEBRUARY 20, 2021AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
ALGERIA: JIHADIST SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR FRENCH HIKER’S MURDER
An Algerian court on 18 February 2021 sentenced to death a jihadist for the kidnapping and beheading of French mountaineer Herve Gourdel six years ago after a high profile one-day trial.
NOVEMBER 23, 2020AlgeriaDEATH PENALTYALGERIA: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY BACKS DEATH PENALTY FOR CHILD ABDUCTION
Offenders convicted of child abduction in Algeria could be sentenced to death under a new bill approved by the National Assembly, MEMO reported on 19 November 2020.
- AUGUST 5, 2020AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
TURKEY EXTRADITES OFFICER BEHIND LEAKED MILITARY SECRETS TO ALGERIA
Turkey extradited a fugitive military officer who was allegedly behind a high-profile leak in the Algerian army, reports said on 4 August 2020.
- JANUARY 1, 2020AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
Algeria’s laws prescribe the death penalty for a range of crimes including ordinary crimes.
Algeria’s laws prescribe the death penalty for a range of crimes including ordinary crimes.
JUNE 13, 2019AlgeriaDEATH PENALTYALGERIA: THREE MEMBERS OF FORMER INTELLIGENCE SERVICE SENTENCED TO DEATH
A military court in Blida, 45 km South-west of Algiers, has pressed death sentence against three members of the former Security and Intelligence Directorate (DRS) for providing intelligence to foreign countries.
- JANUARY 1, 2019AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
Algeria’s laws prescribe the death penalty for a range of crimes including ordinary crimes.
Algeria’s laws prescribe the death penalty for a range of crimes including ordinary crimes.