The Algerian Ministry of Communications suspended the weekly “La Nation” “until further notice” on 31 January 1995. A faxed notice was sent to the newspaper’s printer. The week before, minister Mohammed Benamar Zerhouni had said that he “reserved the right to use all available measures…against” the newspaper, after it published a letter said to have […]
The Algerian Ministry of Communications suspended the weekly “La
Nation” “until further notice” on 31 January 1995. A faxed notice
was sent to the newspaper’s printer. The week before, minister
Mohammed Benamar Zerhouni had said that he “reserved the right to
use all available measures…against” the newspaper, after it
published a letter said to have been written by Ali Belhadj,
second-in-command of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS). It is the
second time in the past two months that a newspaper has been
suspended for articles which have no link to questions of
national security.
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Algiers, Algeria
Fax: +213 2 60 96 18
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Fax: +213 2 64 44 55
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Fax: +213 2 73 61 06
