Prosecutors Seek 10-Year Jail Terms in Algerian Football Corruption Case
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A court case in Algeria is in the news. Prosecutors want 10-year prison terms for three men. Their names are Zetchi, Amara and Zefizef. The case is about the Algerian Football Federation. People call it the FAF case. The case is about corruption. Corruption means using power in a bad way for money. One man, Amara, says he is not guilty. He says people put him in this case by mistake. He says he has no link to it. Many people in Algeria talk about corruption in government. This case is now in court. The judge will decide what happens next. This is a new step in the FAF case.
Vocabulary15 words
- prosecutor
- a person in court who says someone did something wrong
- 10-year
- lasting ten years; a long time
- FAF
- short name for the Algerian Football Federation
- corruption
- using power in a bad way for money
- court
- a place where judges decide if someone broke the law
- judge
- a person who decides what happens in a court case
- guilty
- having done something wrong against the law
- sentence
- the punishment a judge gives
- case
- a problem or crime that goes to court
- federation
- a group that controls a sport in a country
- prison
- a place where people go as punishment
- accused
- a person who is said to have done a crime
- trial
- when a court looks at a case to decide the truth
- deny
- to say something is not true
- involved
- connected to something
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1. 10 years 2. He has no link to it 3. Corruption
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A court case in Algeria is in the news. Prosecutors want _____ prison terms for three men. Their names are Zetchi, Amara and _____. The case is about the Algerian Football _____. People call it the FAF case. The case is about _____. Corruption means using power in a bad way for money. One man, Amara, says he is not _____. He says people put him in this case by mistake. He says he has no link to it. Many people in Algeria talk about corruption in _____. This case is now in _____. The judge will decide what happens next. This is a new step in the FAF case.
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