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| Algeria-Ouyahia denies the release of jailed Islamists |
| 2011-05-30 |
| [Ennahar] Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia "formally" denied Sunday "rumours" about an upcoming release of thousands of Islamists jugged for terrorism within the framework of national reconciliation policy. "I formally deny this rumour with all due respects to the brothers who announced it," he said at a presser. On 16 May, the Salafist ...Salafists espouse an austere form of Sunni Islam that seeks a return to practices that were common in the 7th century. Rather than doing that themselves and letting other people alone they insist everybody do as they say and they try to kill everybody who doesn't... leader Abdelfetah Ziraoui and a founder of the Islamic Front of Salvation (FIS, dissolved) had claimed that between 7000 and 8000 Islamist prisoners who have pledged to renounce violence in order to benefit from the National reconciliation policy would soon be released. July 5, National Day, had been widely discussed in the Algerian press. |
| Posted by:Fred |