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Execution stay

Friday 26 November 1993 00:02 GMT
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Algeria's ruling High State Council has suspended the executions of Muslim fundamentalists convicted of terrorism, AFP reports from Algiers. The independent daily newspaper al-Khabar said the decision took effect from Wednesday. Some 400 death sentences have been handed out in the past 21 months.

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