12 years for Algerian musician's alleged killers

Google News ^ | July 18, 2011 | AFP

[SunkenCiv]

...12-year jail terms to two men convicted of killing popular Algerian singer Lounes Matoub, an avid Berber campaigner... gunned down aged 42 near the Kabylie region's capital Tizi Ouzou... June 25, 1998... their lawyers, along with the singer's family, demanded the "real" perpetrators be identified... the artist's sister Malika Matoub... demanded that Hassan Hattab, a leader of the armed extremist Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, who claimed responsibility for the killing, appear in court instead... Matoub's murder caused an uproar in Algeria and came during a civil war between Islamic extremists and the security forces. Matoub's widow Nadia has blamed the Armed Islamic Group (GIA)

[SunkenCiv]

I was going to post this, then discovered it's Bloomberg, can't use it:

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[Wally_Kalbacken]

Alleged killers of an Algerian musician?

or

Killers of a an alleged Algerian musician?

[afraidfortherepublic]

If the killers have been convicted and are serving 12 year terms, why are they still ‘alleged’?