"Any anger is not courage": Free Thought charges Boualem Sansal in an open letter

A contribution by Ahmed Bensaada — As an assiduous observer remembers, the French media tsunami that accompanied the case of the Algerian-French writer Boualem Sansal was unprecedented. The mainstream media vomited to exhaustion, cyberspace nearly caught fire, human rights organizations went bankrupt and the amphitheaters shook under decibels and liters of postillion. As an environmental activist, so much energy spent in this way cannot be harml…

The association, known in particular to ask for the debunking of religious signs in the public space, attacks the Franco-Algerian writer, who has been imprisoned in Algeria since last November.