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Family of French journalist sentenced in Algeria pleads for help from soccer great Zidane

  • Algerian authorities have sentenced French sports journalist Christophe Gleizes to seven years in prison for 'glorifying terrorism'.
  • Gleizes was arrested in May 2024 while writing about a local football club, and charged with 'glorifying terrorism' and 'possessing publications for propaganda purposes harmful to national interests'.
  • Media rights campaigners RSF have denounced the verdict as 'nonsensical' and said Gleizes 'has been subjected to an absurd judicial control order for over a year'.
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Family of French journalist sentenced in Algeria pleads for help from soccer great Zidane

The family of a French sports journalist who has been sentenced to seven years in prison in Algeria is calling for help from the sporting world and soccer great Zinédine Zidane.

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In May 2024, French journalist Christophe Gleizes, sent by the magazine "So Foot" in Algeria for a report on the club of the Jeunesse sportif de Kabylie, was arrested in front of the stadium of Tizi Ouzou. Thirteen months later, he received seven years in prison for apology of terrorism, without having published any line. A kafkaian gear where football and Franco-Algérian diplomacy televised. Recited an absurd trap that became a state affair.

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It is a case that arouses great emotion in the world of the media. Christophe Gleizes, a French sports journalist, was sentenced to seven years in prison by the court in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, for "apology of terrorism".

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Christophe Gleizes, a French sports journalist working with So Foot and Society, was sentenced on 29 June 2025 by a court in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, to seven years in prison for "apology of terrorism" and "possession of publications aimed at propaganda", after a year of judicial review. The journalist was in the wrong place and at the wrong time, he re-reads our columnist, who also deplores that the regime's outrageous propaganda is receiving the s…

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SOFOOT.com broke the news in on Sunday, June 29, 2025.
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