Algeria court sentences ex-culture priest to imprisonment for join

The Sidi M’hamed Court of Algiers yesterday condemned previous Culture Minister Khalida Toumi to six years in jail and fined her 200,000 dinars ($1,430) in the wake of viewing her as her at fault for defilement, the Algeria Press Agency (APS) detailed.

Toumi was the longest-serving priest during the period of the late President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. She held the way of life portfolio somewhere in the range of 2002 and 2014.

A similar court likewise sentenced a previous authority at the service, Abdelhamid Blidia, to four years in jail and fined him 200,000 dinars ($1,430).

The previous overseer of culture in the province of Tlemcen, Abdelhakim Miloud, was additionally condemned to two years in jail and fined 100,000 dinars ($715), as per a similar source.

APS said the court gave its decision against the previous clergyman and authorities on charges connected with “maltreatment of office, conceding unjustifiable honors and misappropriation of public assets, particularly during widespread developments coordinated” while she was a pastor.

The occasions incorporate “Algeria, the capital of Arab culture” in 2007, the African Festival” in 2009, and “Tlemcen, the capital of Islamic culture” in 2011

The decisions are fundamental and likely to pursue.

In November 2019, Toumi turned into the principal high-positioning authority under President Bouteflika’s system to be detained.