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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.
We deplore the sentencing of our fellow citizen Boualem Sansal to prison.
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.
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perspectives
- 1.French Foreign Policy
- 2.Authoritarianism
- 3.Freedom of Speech
- 4.France in Sahel
- 5.Literature
- 6.Colonialism
- 7.Algeria-France Relations
countries
organizations
- 1.US Transportation Security Administration
- 2.Bookmarks
- 3.Echorouk
- 4.Frontieres
- 5.German Book Trade
- 6.Polisario Front
persons
- 1.Boualem Sansal
- 2.Abdelmadjid Tebboune
- 3.Emmanuel Macron
- 4.Francois Mitterrand
- 5.Annie Ernaux
- 6.Christophe Lemoine
- 7.Hociane Amine
- 8.Orhan Pamuk
- 9.Salman Rushdie
- 10.Sonia Draga
- 11.Wole Soyinka