An Algerian court upheld a verdict against French-Algerian writer and critic Boualem Sansal on Tuesday, sentencing him to five years in prison and a fine of 500,000 Algerian dinars (approximately ...

An Algerian court on Tuesday upheld a five-year prison sentence against dual-national author Boualem Sansal, whose case has ...

The novelist’s case has united European lawmakers, who have demanded Sansal's release. His case has raised alarm over freedom ...

An Algerian court upheld on Tuesday a five-year prison sentence being served by French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal for ...

Franco-Algerian author Boualem Sansal is facing five years in prison in Algeria after he lost an appeal against his ...

Last month, a group of French and German intellectuals called for Sansal to become a “European cause” in a column published in the French outlet Le Monde. But so far neither Kallas nor the European ...

Last November, Boualem Sansal, a well-known Algerian novelist with French citizenship and Berber roots, was arrested when he landed in Algiers and accused of spying and harming Algeria's security.

Born in Algeria during the French colonial period, Sansal has written exclusively in French and gained French citizenship in 2024. The writer has spent much of his literary career criticising the rise ...

French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal has been sentenced to five years in prison in Algeria for undermining the country’s territorial integrity. Sansal was arrested in November last year at Algiers ...

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Sansal’s case has provoked outrage from the European Parliament, civil liberties groups and politicians across the political spectrum in France, particularly on the right.