{"id":61053,"date":"2020-02-07T09:48:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T01:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61053"},"modified":"2020-02-07T09:48:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T01:48:34","slug":"algerian-leader-pardons-more-than-6000-prisoners-in-conciliatory-gesture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61053","title":{"rendered":"Algerian leader pardons more than 6,000 prisoners in conciliatory gesture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thetop10news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/httpss4.reutersmedia-270.netresourcesr\"><img src=\"https:\/\/thetop10news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/httpss4.reutersmedia-270.netresourcesr\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4>ALGIERS, Feb 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Thursday pardoned more than 6,000 prisoners, extending a process of clemency that has outdone in scale similar conciliatory gestures by his predecessors.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Tebboune, elected in December in a vote rejected by a mass protest movement seeking the total replacement of the ruling elite, is trying to quell nearly a year of political unrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mass pardons this week follow an offer of dialogue with the protesters, the release of detainees arrested at demonstrations, the formation of a committee to amend the constitution and meetings with opposition figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Combined with the 3,471 prisoners released earlier this week, Tebboune has now pardoned nearly 10,000 prisoners with sentences of 18 months or less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His predecessor, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who ruled for 20 years until he was ousted in April over the mass protests, freed about 5,000 people in 2017 to mark Algeria\u2019s independence day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OPEC member Algeria also faces economic problems and increased financial pressure caused by a fall in energy revenue and foreign exchange reserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Protesters have been taking to the streets for weekly demonstrations on Fridays, but their number appears to have fallen since Tebboune\u2019s election. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALGIERS, Feb 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Thursday pardoned more than 6,000 prisoners, extending a process of clemency that has outdone in scale similar conciliatory gestures by his predecessors. Tebboune, elected in December in a vote rejected by a mass protest movement seeking the total replacement of the ruling elite, is trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61053"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}