US EditionFrench-Algerian Writer Boualem Sansal Won't Appeal Sentence, Hopes for Pardon
ALGERIA, JUL 4 – Boualem Sansal faces a five-year sentence for comments on territorial history and awaits a possible pardon amid ongoing concerns over his health, supporters say.
- On March 27, Algerian writer Boualem Sansal was sentenced to five years in prison and fined 500,000 dinars for undermining Algeria's territorial integrity.
- The case stemmed from Sansal's statement to a French far-right publication alleging that, during the colonial era between 1830 and 1962, France allocated land belonging to Morocco to Algeria—a position Algeria perceives as undermining its sovereignty.
- Sansal appeared in court on June 24 without legal counsel and called the case nonsensical, citing constitutional guarantees of freedom of expression and conscience.
- On July 1, the sentence was confirmed by the court, and Sansal's supporters indicated he would not pursue an appeal, instead expressing hope for a pardon despite slim prospects for the offense to be reconsidered.
- Sansal was not pardoned on Independence Day's eve, and his conviction has worsened already tense France-Algeria relations, complicated by migration and territorial disputes.
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On Saturday, July 5th, Boualem Sansal's relatives were eagerly awaited, but on this day, the anniversary of Algerian independence, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune refused to pardon the Franco-Algérien writer. This week, a court confirmed his conviction to five years' imprisonment for violating national unity. And his case is now at the heart of an arm of iron between the metropolis and Algeria. For a year, tensions between the two countries have …
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French writer jailed in Algeria won’t appeal, hopeful of pardon
French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal will not appeal his five-year prison sentence to Algeria's Supreme Court, sources close to the author said on Saturday, adding that they remain hopeful for a pardon. The 80-year-old dual-national writer was sentenced to five years behind bars on 27 March on charges related to undermining Algeria's territorial integrity over comments made to a French media outlet. "According to our information, he will not ap…
French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal won't appeal sentence, hopes for pardon
French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal will not appeal his five-year prison sentence, sources close to the author said on Saturday. French Prime Minister François Bayrou has said he hoped Algeria would pardon the author, who was arrested in November for saying France had unfairly ceded Moroccan territory to Algeria during the colonial era.
The French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, sentenced to five years in prison for "damaging national unity" in Algeria, is not going to seek cassation, we learned from consistent sources this Saturday. For the time being, he has not received a pardon from the Algerian president.
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