{"id":44258,"date":"2026-09-01T07:35:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T05:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=44258"},"modified":"2026-09-01T07:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T05:35:32","slug":"algeria-reintroduces-death-penalty-for-arsonists","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/algeria-reintroduces-death-penalty-for-arsonists\/","title":{"rendered":"Algeria reintroduces death penalty for arsonists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has ordered the reintroduction of the death penalty for arsonists found guilty of deliberately starting forest fires.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">This follows devastating wave of wildfires in northeastern Algeria that killed at least 12 people and injured 54 others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Tebboune has issued a directive to the Justice Minister to submit the proposed bill by September 15.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Investigators launched probes into suspected arson after videos showed multiple separate blazes starting simultaneously.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Although Algeria has maintained a de facto moratorium on carrying out executions since 1993, this new order marks a severe escalation from the previous maximum penalty of 30 years to life imprisonment for deliberate forest arson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13699,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-44258","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Algeria has ordered the reintroduction of the death penalty","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44259,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44258\/revisions\/44259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=44258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}