Algeria sentences author Boualem Sansal sentenced to five years in prison
Algeria’s jailing of writer for remarks on border with regional rival Morocco inflames tensions with France. 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 Thursday under “anti-terrorism” laws after he gave an interview…
