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 ...

The 80-year-old writer, who suffers from cancer, has been detained in Algeria since November 2024. The ruling comes amid a diplomatic crisis between Paris and Algiers.

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — A court in Algeria on Thursday sentenced an award-winning French-Algerian writer to five years in ... The case against 76-year-old Boualem Sansal has become a flashpoint ...

French President ... jailed French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal in a phone call with his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune. The author was sentenced to five years in prison last week ...

The author was sentenced last Thursday to five years in prison after an interview he gave to a French ... Algerian government, to plan ways to shore up ties, it said. Sansal's conviction and ...

Tensions further peaked in November after Algeria arrested French ... Boualem Sansal, who is an outspoken critic of Islamism and the Algerian regime. He has since been sentenced to five years ...

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 ...

Tensions further peaked in November after Algeria arrested French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, who is an outspoken critic of Islamism and the Algerian regime. He has since been sentenced to five ...