A Protestant church is pictured on June 7, 2008

A Protestant church is pictured on June 7, 2008 in Algiers. The prosecutor of Tiaret, in western Algeria, asked for a sentence of three years without parole for Habiba Kouider, 37, a convert to Christianity on trial for illegally practicing a non-Muslim faith, by virtue of a law passed in 2006.
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