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  • An Algerian appeals court Wednesday slashed to one year a 10-year jail term handed to opposition activist Yacine Mebarki, convicted of "offending Islam", his lawyer said. The court upheld rulings against Mebarki on charges including "offending the precepts of (Islam)", but overturned convictions with heavier sentences including "profaning the Koran", wrote lawyer Hachem Saci on Facebook. Mebarki, a member of the North African country's Berber minority who has been involved in the long-running Hirak protest movement, was arrested on September 30 after police searched his home. They found an old copy of the Koran with a ripped page, as well as two old bullets used as decoration. A lower court sentenced him in October to 10 years in prison, after convicting him on the charges above, as well as "incitement to discrimination" and "unauthorised possession of weapons". But the appeals court overturned convictions on the more serious charges of "profaning the Koran" and pushing another Muslim to leave the religion, Saci said. The court in Khenchela, in the country's north-east, also reduced an original fine from 10 million dinars (around 66,000 euros) to 50,000 dinars (approximately 330 euros). The original sentence would have been the harshest prison sentence yet against a Hirak activist, according to the CNLD prisoners' support group. The Hirak movement started with mass protests in early 2019 against longtime president Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a fifth term in office. After Bouteflika quit under pressure from demonstrators and the army, Hirak activists continued their campaign for a deep overhaul of the ruling system in place since Algeria's independence from France. The movement was forced to suspend its demonstrations in light of the coronavirus pandemic, and authorities have launched a crackdown against opposition activists. The CNLD says around 90 pro-Hirak activists, social media users and journalists are currently behind bars. abh/agr/par/dwo
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  • Algeria slashes activist's jail term for 'offending Islam': lawyer
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