{"id":15763,"date":"2025-03-27T18:25:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/boualem-sansal-algerian-french-writer-is-sentenced-to-5-years-in-algerian-prison\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T18:25:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:25:40","slug":"boualem-sansal-algerian-french-writer-is-sentenced-to-5-years-in-algerian-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/boualem-sansal-algerian-french-writer-is-sentenced-to-5-years-in-algerian-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Boualem Sansal, Algerian French Writer, Is Sentenced to 5 Years in Algerian Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">An Algerian French writer whose arrest in Algeria on accusations of undermining national unity and security inflamed tensions with France was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The writer, Boualem Sansal, who was born in Algeria and became a French citizen last year, was arrested in November because of statements he made to French news media siding with Morocco in a territorial dispute with Algeria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His detention raised an outcry from other authors worldwide, and his sentencing came after months of pleas for his freedom from the French president, Emmanuel Macron. France was once Algeria\u2019s colonial ruler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Sansal was tried and sentenced without being allowed access to legal counsel, according to his lawyer in France, Francois Zimeray.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cCruel detention, 20 minutes of hearing, a forbidden defense and ultimately five years in prison for an innocent writer,\u201d Mr. Zimeray said in a statement. The sentence, he said, \u201cbetrays the very meaning of the word justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Sansal, who was diagnosed with cancer and is believed to be about 80, is being held at Kolea prison, outside the capital, Algiers, according to Mr. Zimeray.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHis age and his state of health make each day of incarceration even more inhumane,\u201d the lawyer said. \u201cI appeal to the Algerian president: Justice has failed, at least let humanity prevail.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Zimeray said in a text message that the next steps in the case were not clear but that the coming weeks might be decisive. \u201cIt\u2019s in the hands of the Algerian government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Macron echoed the sentiment. Speaking to reporters at <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/France24_fr\/status\/1905261642624970919\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a briefing<\/a> on Thursday, he called Mr. Sansal a \u201cgreat writer\u201d and, noting his poor health, urged his release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI know I can count on the humanity of the Algerian authorities,\u201d the French president said before adding: \u201cIn any case, I very much hope so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Macron has been taking a more conciliatory tone since <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/algeria\/article\/2025\/01\/06\/macron-says-algeria-dishonors-itself-by-holding-writer-boualem-sansal_6736761_221.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">accusing Algeria<\/a> in January of dishonoring itself with Mr. Sansal\u2019s detention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This month, Mr. Sansal\u2019s lawyer appealed to the United Nations to take a stand in the matter. He called the writer\u2019s detention arbitrary and said that it had occurred in a \u201clarger context\u201d of widespread denial of freedom of expression and the weaponization of the Algerian justice system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After Mr. Sansal was arrested upon his arrival in Algeria last year, his case drew condemnation from French lawmakers and intellectuals, as well as writers around the world. Winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, including Annie Ernaux and Orhan Pamuk, and other noted authors like Salman Rushdie joined an opinion article by the French Algerian writer Kamel Daoud in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lepoint.fr\/societe\/des-prix-nobel-de-litterature-se-mobilisent-pour-boualem-sansal-23-11-2024-2576089_23.php?at_variante=Community%20Management&amp;at_creation=Twitter&amp;at_campaign=Page%20Twitter%20Le%20Point&amp;at_medium=Social%20Management\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Le Point<\/a> newsmagazine, denouncing<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>\u201ceditorial terrorism\u201d in Algeria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Repression of Algerian journalists has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/29\/world\/middleeast\/algeria-free-media-radio-m.html\" title=\"\">been increasing<\/a> in recent years. In 2019, mass protests forced Algeria\u2019s president from power. His replacement, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who was elected with military support, has pushed the country toward harsher authoritarianism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dozens of journalists are believed to have been imprisoned in Algeria as the government has sought to prevent mass protests from flaring again, though the figures are murky given the difficulty of independent reporting, experts say.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Sansal has long been outspoken about his opposition to Islamism and critical of the Algerian government. In 2012, he was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/05\/world\/europe\/arab-envoys-rebuked-for-denying-prize-money-to-algerian-writer.html\" title=\"\">denied the cash portion of a prize<\/a> by the Arab Ambassadors Council in Paris after attending a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/known-algerian-writer-denied-cash-prize-after-visiting-israel\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">writers festival in Jerusalem<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The statements he made that led to his detention came at a particularly fraught time for relations between France and Algeria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In October, Mr. Macron told Moroccan lawmakers he believed that Western Sahara \u2014 subject of a territorial dispute between Algeria and Morocco, a former French protectorate \u2014 should be under Moroccan sovereignty, angering Algerians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Sansal had also said that Algeria benefited from French colonization because it gained territory in the Western Sahara that once belonged to the kingdom of Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Sansal, who had been working as an engineer for the Algerian government, published his first book, \u201c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gallimard.fr\/catalogue\/le-serment-des-barbares\/9782070756469\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Oath of the Barbarians,<\/a>\u201d in 1999. The novel was critical of Islamic fundamentalism and government repression, putting Mr. Sansal out of a job and paving the way for a second career as a writer and commentator. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/27\/world\/africa\/algeria-boualem-sansal-prison-france.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Algerian French 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