US EditionEye on Africa - Algeria Court Upholds Writer Sansal's Five-Year Jail Term
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Algeria appeals court upholds 5-year prison sentence for French-Algerian writer
An Algerian court upheld a verdict against French-Algerian writer and critic Boualem Sansal on Tuesday, sentencing him to five years in prison and a fine of 500,000 Algerian dinars (approximately $3,851). The Algiers Court of Appeal upheld the sentence issued by the Criminal Court of First Instance of Dar El Beïda on March 27. In upholding the ruling, the Court denied a request to extend Sansal’s prison sentence to 10 years, which was made by pr…
Eye on Africa - Algeria court upholds writer Sansal's five-year jail term
In tonight's edition, a court in Algiers upholds French-Algerian author Boualem Sansal's five-year prison sentence. Also, police in Ghana rescue 76 people trafficked to Nigeria under a fake recruitment scam. And a new wave of cinema is emerging in Benin.
The Franco-Algérien writer Boualem Sansal has been imprisoned in Algeria for more than seven months. On Tuesday 1 July, the coupret fell. The appeal did not change the sentence to five years of imprisonment.... Read the article Condemnation of Boualem Sansal: the writer's supporters demand a presidential pardon appeared first on Current Values.
French-Algerian author Boualem Sansal was sentenced to five years in Algiers. In Leipzig, celebrities such as Martina Hefter, Corinna Harfouch and Volker Schlöndorff protested against this.
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