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Algeria jails two ex-intelligence chiefs for 15 years

Said Bouteflika, brother of deposed Algerian leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika. (AFP)

A military court in Algeria on Wednesday jailed for 15 years two former intelligence chiefs, the brother of a former president and the leader of a political party for “conspiring against the army”, private television channels said.

The court in Blida, south of Algiers, the capital, also handed a 20-year jail sentence to a former defense minister in absentia, Ennahar TV said.

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