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Algerian Court Sentences French-Algerian Author Boualem Sansal to Five Years in Prison

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The novelist Boualem Sansal was arrested on November 16th at Algiers airport upon his return from Paris. The arrest was in response to an interview he gave to a far-right French media outlet in which he criticized France for ceding Moroccan territory to Algeria during the colonial era. Following his arrest, Sansal was sentenced to a five-year prison term under anti-terrorism laws.

  1. FR
    Christophe Lemoine
    France Foreign Ministry
    1. We deplore the sentencing of our fellow citizen Boualem Sansal to prison.
  2. DZ
    Hociane Amine
    1. Obviously, he has a possibility to appeal. And now that he's been sentenced, the president is within his rights to grant him a pardon because it's a political card in the current crisis with France.

sources

  1. 1.France 24
  2. 2.Al Jazeera
  3. 3.The Guardian
  4. 4.Agence France-Presse
  5. 5.Europe 1
  6. 6.Le Point

perspectives

  1. 1.French Foreign Policy
  2. 2.Authoritarianism
  3. 3.Freedom of Speech
  4. 4.France in Sahel
  5. 5.Literature
  6. 6.Colonialism
  7. 7.Algeria-France Relations

countries

  1. 1.AlgeriaDZ
  2. 2.Western SaharaEH
  3. 3.FranceFR
  4. 4.MoroccoMA

organizations

  1. 1.US Transportation Security AdministrationUS
  2. 2.Bookmarks
  3. 3.Echorouk
  4. 4.Frontieres
  5. 5.German Book Trade
  6. 6.Polisario Front

persons

  1. 1.Boualem Sansal
  2. 2.Abdelmadjid Tebboune
  3. 3.Emmanuel MacronFR
  4. 4.Francois Mitterrand
  5. 5.Annie Ernaux
  6. 6.Christophe LemoineFR
  7. 7.Hociane AmineDZ
  8. 8.Orhan Pamuk
  9. 9.Salman RushdieGB
  10. 10.Sonia Draga
  11. 11.Wole Soyinka

technicals

  1. 1.article 87 of the Algerian penal code
  2. 2.Islam
  3. 3.2011 Peace Prize