French sect leader to be extradited
A French sect leader wanted by France will be extradited after the Constitutional Court this morning threw out his case in which he claimed breaches of human rights in the way he and his partner had been treated by the police, in prison and by the courts.
A ranking Algerian diplomat suspected in the 1987 murder of a dissident in Paris is free to go home, three months after Algeria called him a hostage of France.Mohammed Ziane Hasseni, protocol chief for Algeria's Foreign Ministry, arrested in August, has been under judicial supervision and barred from leaving France.The case has strained ties between France and Algeria, a former colony.