Source: Morning Star News, November 29, 2016<\/p>\n
The daughter of an Algerian Christian sentenced to three years in prison on a charge of blaspheming Islam fears for his life, religious freedom advocates said.<\/p>\n
Although the date when the assault was set to happen is not publically known, advocacy group Middle East Concern (MEC) received the first reports about the plans on November 14. A group of inmates planned to attack [Slimane] Bouhafs because he objected to the views of an imam who publicly insulted Christians and Christianity in Algeria, MEC\u2019s analyst on religious freedom in Algeria told Morning Star News.<\/p>\n
\u201cBouhafs was defending Christianity, calling for more religious freedom and freedom of speech, which provoked the attempted attack,\u201d said the analyst, who requested anonymity for security reasons.<\/p>\n
An inmate who became aware of the plans warned prison guards, who separated Bouhafs from the inmates who sought to attack him before they could carry it out.<\/p>\n
Bouhafs suffers from rheumatoid arthritis, which causes extremely painful swelling of his joints. He controls the swelling by eating a special, controlled diet that is unavailable in jail.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the end of September when his lawyer saw him, and early in October when his daughter visited him, his daughter reported that he had severely lost weight to a degree where it was hard to recognize him,\u201d the analyst said. \u201cThe lawyer said he looked very frail and weak.\u201d<\/p>\n
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