Algeria: French-Algerian writer given five-year prison sentence
A French-Algerian writer has been given a five-year prison sentence in Algeria for undermining Algeria’s territorial integrity.
Boualem Sansal was arrested in November 2024 for saying in an interview that France unfairly ceded Moroccan territory to Algeria during the colonial era, according to France24 on March 27th.
Amid French President Macron’s call for the writer’s release, citing his fragile state of health from cancer, his prison sentence is set to worsen an already unprecedented diplomatic crisis between Paris and Algiers.
France24
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