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

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — A court in Algeria on Thursday sentenced an award-winning French-Algerian writer to five years in prison over remarks that questioned the borders dividing Algeria from regional ...

An Algerian court sentenced French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal to five years in jail on Thursday for undermining national unity, prompting a call for his freedom from French President Emmanuel ...

Sansal was arrested in November 2024 at Algiers airport. French President Macron has called on Algeria to release the writer.

France's President Emmanuel Macron is urging Algeria to free an 80-year-old writer who was sentenced on Tuesday to five years ...

French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, 80, was sentenced last Thursday to five years in prison after an interview he gave to ...

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

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 ...

French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, who has been ensnared in an unprecedented diplomatic crisis between Algiers and Paris, was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison for undermining ...

Boualem Sansal was arrested after he said France gave too much land to Algeria and too little to Morocco during the colonial era. Paris has condemned the arrest of the Franco-Algerian author. An ...

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.

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 ...