“Algeria yesterday sentenced Mokhtar Belmokhtar, known as ‘Belaawer’ (the One-Eyed), to death in absentia after finding him guilty of forming and leading a terrorist organisation and in possessing of, trading in and marketing weapons and ammunition. The Criminal Court of Oran found Belmokhtar guilty of setting up Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.”
Source: Algeria: Death sentence for Mokhtar Belmokhtar – Middle East Monitor