The prosecution of Boualem Sansal, who is around 80, prompted outrage from the global literary community and pleas from France for his release. By Ephrat Livni An Algerian French writer whose ...

Rabat - French President Emmanuel Macron expressed optimism today over the anticipated release of French-Algerian writer ...

Algerian French writer Boualem Sansal, 75, has been sentenced to five years in an Algerian prison. He was arrested late last ...

Retailleau ultimately did not resign. The case of Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal Arrested in Algeria in November 2024, Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal was sentenced on March 27 to ...

French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal has been sentenced to five years in prison for undermining Algeria's territorial integrity.

Algeria has sentenced French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal to five years in prison on charges of “undermining national unity”. A court in Dar El Beida, near Algiers, sentenced the author on ...

Boualem Sansal was arrested in Algeria last year after apparently telling a French far-right media group that, during the colonial era, France gave too much land to Algeria and too little to Morocco.

Macron "called for a gesture of mercy and humanity towards Mr Boualem Sansal, given the age and state of health of the writer", the Élysee statement said. According to his French publisher ...

Sansal was arrested in November 2024 at Algiers airport. French President Macron has called on Algeria to release the writer. French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal has been sentenced to five years ...

"We regret the sentencing with a long prison term of our compatriot Boualem Sansal," France's foreign ministry spokesman Christophe Lemoine said in a statement. "We reiterate our call for a quick ...

The case against 76-year-old Boualem Sansal has become a flashpoint in growing tensions between the Algerian and French governments. French President Emmanuel Macron later Thursday called for his ...