Macron urges 'mercy' for jailed writer Sansal in call with Algeria's Tebboune

"We only heard from the trial, which lasted not half an hour, but twenty minutes," recalled Noëlle Lenoir on franceinfo on Thursday.

The writer and journalist, exiled in France, has received the most prestigious award in French literature for a novel about the ravages of civil war in a country where it is forbidden to talk about it; after the publication, an Algerian survivor has accused him of telling his story without his permission 'Sworn virgins', Albanians who became men and cast their chastity vote in order to inherit Kamel Daoud (Mesra, 1970) is one of the most well-kn…

Franco-Algérien writer Boualem Sansal appealed his sentence to five years in prison in Algeria, told AFP on Wednesday his French lawyer, François Zimeray. ...

On 27 March, the Franco-Algerian author was sentenced to five years in prison by the Dar El Beida Correctional Court near Algiers.

Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said he had "for the first time" good hope of seeing Boualem Sansal "return" to France, he said on Tuesday, April 1st, according to Cnews. The French-Algérien writer, whose health was fragile, was sentenced to five years in prison the previous week.Bruno Retailleau was one of the ministers gathered by Emmanuel Macron today to discuss recent tensions with Algeria. On Monday, the head of state and his Algerian co…

Macron urges ’mercy’ from Algerian leader for jailed writer

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday urged Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune to show "mercy and humanity" towards a jailed French-Algerian writer, Boualem Sansal, the Elysee palace said in a statement. Macron made the plea during a "long, frank and friendly" phone call covering bilateral ties and "tensions that have accumulated over recent months," it said. Macron has repeatedly called for Algeria to release Sansal, citing his frag…