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
- JUNE 14, 2003AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
"Emir" [Islamist group leader] Boufedi, 23 years old,...
"Emir" [Islamist group leader] Boufedi, 23 years old, who has been on the run since the 1990s, and found guilty of setting up a group of criminals and a terrorist organization through armed violence, was sentenced to death in absentia by the criminal cour
- APRIL 3, 2003AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
The Algerian newspaper Le Matin reported that Mohamed...
The Algerian newspaper Le Matin reported that Mohamed Ferfar, sentenced to death on charges of terrorism on 25 March, had been sentenced to death once more on separate charges
- MARCH 25, 2003AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
Mohamed Ferfar, arrested by the police on 28 December...
Mohamed Ferfar, arrested by the police on 28 December 1998, was sentenced to death by the criminal court in Annaba, the Algerian newspaper Le Matin reported on its website
- FEBRUARY 16, 2003AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
A 21-year-old unnamed individual, a native of Dhaya,...
A 21-year-old unnamed individual, a native of Dhaya, was sentenced in absentia to capital punishment by the Sidi Bel Abbes criminal court after being charged with belonging to and setting up a terrorist group, premeditated murder, laying an ambush and the
- JANUARY 1, 2003AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
The Penal Code provides for the application of the...
The Penal Code provides for the application of the death penalty for serious offenses including: treason and espionage, attempts to change the regime or actions aimed at incitement, destruction of territory, sabotage to public and economic utilities, mass
- JANUARY 1, 2003AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
The Penal Code provides for the application of the...
The Penal Code provides for the application of the death penalty for serious offences including: treason and espionage, attempts to change the regime or actions aimed at incitement, destruction of territory, sabotage to public and economic utilities, mass
- JANUARY 1, 2003AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
At the UN Commission for Human Rights in 2003, Algeria...
At the UN Commission for Human Rights in 2003, Algeria for the first time did not vote against the resolution on the death penalty but declared itself absent from the vote
- JANUARY 1, 2003AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
Algeria has not carried out any executions since 1993
Algeria has not carried out any executions since 1993
- JANUARY 1, 2003AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
Algeria's laws prescribe the death penalty for a range...
Algeria's laws prescribe the death penalty for a range of crimes including ordinary crimes
- JANUARY 1, 2003AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
Former President Liamine Zeroual declared a moratorium...
Former President Liamine Zeroual declared a moratorium on executions in 1993 and no executions have been carried out since
- DECEMBER 21, 2002AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
Terrorism expert Paul Buchanan said that International...
Terrorism expert Paul Buchanan said that International criminals will consider taking refuge in New Zealand because of a law that prevents the deportation of anyone who faces the death penalty in their home country, according to an editorial in The Austra
- NOVEMBER 3, 2002AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
The Sidi Bel Abbes court, sitting in criminal session,...
The Sidi Bel Abbes court, sitting in criminal session, handed down the death penalty in absentia to elements from the terrorist group made up of "emir" Djilali D