The world must rally around Algeria’s hunger artist

The world must rally around Algeria’s hunger artist

In an age when freedom of expression is increasingly under threat, exemplary voices such as Boualem Sansal are needed more than ever. The 75-year-old Algerian novelist and essayist, who published his first book in 1999 and became a French citizen in early 2024, has long criticised authoritarianism and defended liberal values, speaking truth to power with a clarity that unnerves despots and inspires democrats. Today, Sansal urgently requires not …

Mr. François Zimeray, the lawyer of Boualem Sansal, said this Tuesday, March 11 that he was going to seize the UN against the Algerian regime, as reported the weekly Marianne. He deplored the absence of the UN... Read article The lawyer of Boualem Sansal seizes the UN against Algeria appeared first on Current Values.

The writer has been deprived of his rights of defence since his arrest in Algiers last November. His lawyer announces that he has taken the UN and international bodies to denounce the arbitrary nature of his detention.

The Franco-Algerian writer has been detained in Algeria since mid-November, without access to his lawyer. Mr. Francois Zimeray has decided to go on the offensive.

The French-Algerian writer, suffering from cancer, has been incarcerated since mid-November in his country of origin.

While the Algerian regime disregards the rights of the defence, the writer's lawyer, François Zimeray, has decided to move on to the offensive. And announces to seize the United Nations against Algeria. Revelations.