Algeria

Algeria holds writer Boualem Sansal on national security charges: lawyer

Algeria holds writer Boualem Sansal on national security charges: lawyer

  • “Boualem Sansal... was today placed in detention” on the basis of an article of the Algerian penal code, lawyer Francois Zimeray said
  • Sansal had been interrogated by “anti-terrorist” prosecutors and said he was being “deprived of his freedom on the grounds of his writing“
By AFP ·