The case against 76-year-old Boualem Sansal has become a flashpoint in growing tensions between the Algerian and French governments ... Sansal’s five-year sentence is half of what prosecutors ...

The case against 76-year-old Boualem Sansal has become a flashpoint in growing tensions between the Algerian and French governments ... Sansal’s five-year sentence is half of what prosecutors ...

Algeria has sentenced French-Algerian writer Boualem ... the author might be granted a presidential pardon during upcoming Muslim or national holidays. Sansal’s five-year sentence is half ...

French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal has been ... The writer’s sentence was read outside of the court in Dar El Beïda yesterday, saying he was to serve a “five-year prison term” and ...

Algiers (AFP) – An Algerian court on Thursday sentenced French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal ... to five years behind bars, an AFP journalist inside the courtroom said. The author is known ...

France Regrets 5-Year Sentence of French-Algerian Citizen Boualem Sansal PARIS (Reuters) - France regrets the 5-year jail sentence handed to French-Algerian author Boualem Sansal in Algeria and is ...

French President Macron has called on Algeria to release the writer. French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal has been sentenced to five years ... requested a 10-year prison sentence for the novelist ...

Thursday's verdict comes after prosecutors at an Algiers court last week requested a 10-year prison sentence ... interview with a far-right French media outlet. Sansal's remarks, made in a ...