Algeria has sentenced French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal to five years in prison on charges of “undermining national unity”. A court in Dar El Beida, near Algiers, sentenced the author on ...

FILE - Algerian author Boualem Sansal speaks during the 62 edition of International Film Festival Berlinale, in Berlin Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File) ...

By Ephrat Livni An Algerian French writer whose arrest in Algeria on accusations of undermining national unity and security inflamed tensions with France was sentenced to five years in prison on ...

PARIS, March 27 (Reuters) - France regrets the 5-year jail sentence handed to French-Algerian author Boualem Sansal in Algeria and is calling for "a quick and dignified end to the situation", a ...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — A court in Algeria on Thursday sentenced an award-winning French-Algerian writer to five years in prison over remarks that questioned the borders dividing Algeria from ...

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 ...

France Regrets 5-Year Sentence of French-Algerian Citizen Boualem Sansal PARIS (Reuters) - France regrets the 5-year jail sentence handed to French-Algerian author Boualem Sansal in Algeria and is ...

The French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, arrested on November 16 in Algeria and placed in pre-trial detention, was sentenced to five years in prison and fined 500,000 dinars (€3,470), the ...

LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has said that French counterpart Emmanuel Macron is the "only point of reference" for mending frayed ties with its former colonial ruler.