US EditionAlgerian Court Upholds Writer's 5-Year Sentence in a Case that’s Strained Ties with France
- An Algerian court upheld a five-year prison sentence against Boualem Sansal for undermining Algeria's territorial integrity, as reported by a court on Tuesday.
- Sansal claimed France unjustly transferred Moroccan territory to Algeria, a statement Algeria sees as a challenge to its sovereignty.
- This conviction has strained Algeria's relations with France, complicated further by migration issues and France's recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara.
- French officials, including President Emmanuel Macron, have urged Algeria to release Sansal, citing his age and failing health.
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The Islamic critic Boualem Sansal and the sports journalist Christophe Gleizes are said to have violated national unity. The suspicion is that they are farmers' victims.
The French journalists' union has called on Algeria to release French football journalist Christophe Gleizes, who was sentenced to seven years in prison by Algerian authorities on charges of supporting terrorism.
On Tuesday 1 July, the sentence of the writer Boualem Sansal, especially for "damaging national unity", has been confirmed on appeal. Since his arrest last November, the writer has been suspended from diplomatic tensions between Paris and Algiers and hopes for a presidential pardon.
After the verdict against the French-Algerian author Boualem Sansal, the eyes turn to the Algerian president. Will he pardon the writer?
Franco-Argelino writer Boualem Sansal, detained more than seven months ago at Algiers airport, has seen confirmed on Tuesday the sentence that was imposed on him in March to five years in prison for “attempting against the integrity of the State”. Sick of prostate cancer and 75 years in the civil registry (although his real age may be around 80), Sansal is one of the most important authors, translated and read in French.
»Danger to national unity«: The French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal must be imprisoned in Algeria for five years. France calls on Algeria's government to act of grace.
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