An Algerian court on Thursday (Nov. 24) sentenced 49 people to death over the lynching of Djamel Ben Ismail, a man falsely accused of starting deadly forest fires in August last year.
The 49 will likely serve life in prison instead because Algeria has a moratorium on executions.
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