US EditionMother of Jailed French Journalist Appeals to Algerian President for Pardon
Christophe Gleizes faces a seven-year sentence after conviction for glorifying terrorism; his lawyers seek a new trial amid diplomatic tensions between France and Algeria.
- On December 10, Sylvie Godard, mother of Christophe Gleizes, asked President Abdelmadjid Tebboune to pardon her son from his seven-year sentence, writing, `I respectfully ask you to consider granting Christophe a pardon, so that he may regain his freedom and his family.`
- Gleizes was arrested while travelling to northeastern Kabylia to report on Jeunesse Sportive de Kabylie and was convicted of glorifying terrorism in June after meeting the MAK leader in 2021.
- An Algerian appeals court upheld Gleizes's seven-year sentence this month, a decision his mother called `incomprehensible` while Gleizes's lawyers seek a new trial.
- Amid diplomatic friction between Paris and Algiers, Gleizes's arrest occurred during a crisis marked by the withdrawal of two ambassadors and reciprocal expulsions after France last year backed Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara.
- Rights group Reporters Without Borders says Gleizes is France's only imprisoned journalist abroad, and Emmanuel Macron, President of France, has vowed to work for his release.
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After a request for pardon from Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, the mother of journalist Christophe Gleizes asks Zinédine Zidane and Kylian Mbappé to mobilize for the release of her son.
Mother of jailed French journalist seeks pardon from Algeria
The mother of jailed French journalist Christophe Gleizes wrote a letter to Algeria's president requesting that he pardon her son from his seven-year sentence on terror-related charges. Gleizes, a sportswriter, was convicted of "glorifying terrorism" in June. "I respectfully ask you to consider granting Christophe a pardon, so that he may regain his freedom and his family," Sylvie Godard wrote in the letter, which was dated 10 December and seen …
The collaborator of "So Foot" never wrote "any statement hostile to Algeria and its people", defends Sylvie Godard, calling on the "high benevolence" of Abdelmadjid Tebboune.
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