First Independent Mena Newspaper
An Algerian appeals court has upheld a five-year prison sentence against renowned French Algerian author Boualem Sansal, intensifying concerns over freedom of expression in the North African country. The ruling also includes a fine of 500,000 Algerian dinars (approximately $3,850). Sansal, 80, was convicted of “undermining national unity” under Article 87 bis of the Algerian […]
French-Algerian writer who was arrested for his views faces a 10-year in jail sentence and a fine of 6887 euros on the charge of terrorism and subversive acts, in a trial denounced by rights activists as political and retaliatory. Sansal was arrested in November right after landing from France where he gave an interview mentioning […]
The Algerian regime has confirmed through its news agency the arbitrary arrest of Boualem Sansal, a renowned novelist with a critic of the military regime in Algiers. In a diatribe on the national news agency APS, the military regime showed its contempt for free writers such as Sansal whom it called “pseudo writer,” while describing […]