US EditionAlgerian Court Sentences Boualem Sansal to Five Years in Prison
- Boualem Sansal, a French-Algerian writer, was sentenced to five years in prison for undermining Algeria's territorial integrity regarding Morocco's territorial claims during French colonization, as confirmed by a Dar El Beida court.
- The court also imposed a fine of approximately $4,000 against Sansal, who is 80 years old.
- His arrest in November and subsequent comments regarding Moroccan territory exacerbated the already tense diplomatic relations between Algeria and France.
- François Zimeray, Sansal's lawyer, criticized the ruling as a failure of justice, highlighting Sansal's health and age.
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The Franco-Algerian author Boualem Sansal is a collateral victim of political and diplomatic tensions between France and Algeria.
The French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal has been sentenced to five years in prison by a court in Algiers. The relationship between the two countries is also historically burdened.
The writer Boualem Sansal, detained since November 2024 and suffering from cancer was finally sentenced Thursday to five years in prison by the Algerian justice. If the majority of the French political class is outraged by this sentence, some elected far left are more conciliatory with Algiers. The historian is in the position that would only know the facts by the account of an ignorant and possibly lying laboratory boy. Charles Seignobos (The H…
“Let’s read Boualem Sansal, let’s tell his story and let’s hope it has a happy ending,” says Míla Janišová from the Institute of Romance Studies of the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, an expert on Francophone literature of North Africa. The famous Algerian writer will be awarded the Jiří Theiner Prize at the Svět knihy fair in May. However, he will probably not be able to accept it himself – he was arrested in Algiers last autumn a…
Franco-Algerian Writer Jailed For Five Years
Following an unfair trial, the author Boualem Sansal was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment—a decision that further exacerbates diplomatic tensions between France and Algeria. He was arrested in November 2024 by the Algerian authorities, upon arrival from France. The Franco-Algerian writer, known for denouncing the grip of Islamism on French society, was accused of “undermining the integrity of Algerian territory” for having supported, in the…
Algeria sentences elderly writer to 5 years imprisonment for undermining state integrity
Algeria’s Criminal Court of Dar El Beïda sentenced renowned 80-year-old French-Algerian writer and outspoken critic Boualem Sansal to five years in prison and fined him 500,000 Algerian dinars on Thursday. French lawyer François Zimeray, who represented Sansal in the early stages of the case, said the verdict betrayed the meaning of the word justice and urged the Algerian president to intervene on humanitarian grounds. The writer was convicted u…
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