Algeria
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Moratorium on executions
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · The Penal Code provides for the application of the...
- News items in the archive
- 168
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Algeria is classified as Moratorium on executions in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 168 news items on Algeria, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- 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
- OCTOBER 10, 2002AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
The European Parliament gave its endorsement of the...
The European Parliament gave its endorsement of the EU-Algeria Association Agreement
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2002AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
The EU reaffirmed its concerns regarding human rights...
The EU reaffirmed its concerns regarding human rights in Algeria, calling on the Algerian authorities to abolish the death penalty, improve the country's prison legislation and the its status of women
- MAY 10, 2002AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
A criminal tribunal in Algiers sentenced 15 Islamic...
A criminal tribunal in Algiers sentenced 15 Islamic extremists to death, 14 of them in absentia, Le Soir d'Algerie reported
- MAY 1, 2002AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
A fire ripped through an Algerian high security jail,...
A fire ripped through an Algerian high security jail, killing 18 prisoners and injuring seven others, Justice Minister Ahmed Ouyahia said
- APRIL 25, 2002AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
Algeria voted against the resolution 2002/77 on the...
Algeria voted against the resolution 2002/77 on the death penalty at the 58th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 3, 2002AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
Twenty detainees were killed in a fire in an Algerian...
Twenty detainees were killed in a fire in an Algerian prison started by a convict who had been sentenced to death, state television reported
- FEBRUARY 16, 2002AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
UK home secretary David Blunkett stopped the extradition...
UK home secretary David Blunkett stopped the extradition of an Algerian accused of terrorism
- JANUARY 1, 2002AlgeriaDEATH 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
- DECEMBER 13, 2001AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika commuted the...
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika commuted the death sentence of 116 prisoners, Algerian radio reported
- OCTOBER 31, 2001AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika pardoned 7,000...
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika pardoned 7,000 prisoners, excluding inmates serving sentences linked to "terrorism", to mark the anniversary of the revolution, a state newspaper said
- MAY 10, 2001AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
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It would be at least 4
- MAY 1, 2001AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
Algeria's president Abdelaziz Bouteflika promised an...
Algeria's president Abdelaziz Bouteflika promised an independent inquiry after days of rioting by the Berber minority left about 80 people dead
- APRIL 30, 2001AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
The International Federation of Human Rights Leagues...
The International Federation of Human Rights Leagues blamed the Algerian authorities for the violence in the Berber region of Kabylie and accused police there of carrying out summary executions that has left at least 40 people dead
- APRIL 25, 2001AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
Speaking at the UN Commission on Human Rights during...
Speaking at the UN Commission on Human Rights during the vote on the resolution on the death penalty, a representative of Algeria said the draft resolution created a problem
- APRIL 13, 2001AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
Fouad Boulémia, convicted of murdering Abdelkader Hachani,...
Fouad Boulémia, convicted of murdering Abdelkader Hachani, a high ranking member of the Islamic Salvation Front, was sentenced to death by a court in Algiers
- APRIL 12, 2001AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
Two men were sentenced to death by the Tébessa criminal...
Two men were sentenced to death by the Tébessa criminal court, 630km from Algiers, for the murder of a business man in January 2000
- APRIL 7, 2001AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
A court sentenced to death Fouad Boulemia, 29, who...
A court sentenced to death Fouad Boulemia, 29, who had been found guilty of the murder of Abdelkader Hachani, a leading member of the outlawed Islamic Salvation Front, in Algiers in 1999
- JANUARY 1, 2001AlgeriaDEATH 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