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

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 ...

France's Prime Minister François Bayrou, center, speaks next to French essay writer Stephane Rozes, left, president of the support commitee Noelle Lenoir, 2nd left, secretary general of the support co ...

The daughters of the imprisoned Algerian author Boualem Sansal, who live in Prague, have officially requested a presidential ...

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 ...

France on Tuesday ordered the expulsion of 12 Algerian diplomats and consular officials and recalled its ambassador in the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Tensions between Algeria and France rise as Algeria protests France's detention of an Algerian consular agent linked to a ...

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.

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