(FIJALGER/IFEX) – Independent journalist El Kadi Ihsane was recently arrested by border police at the Oum Tboul border post. Several Algerian newspapers have reported that the journalist was travelling to Tunisia on a family vacation when he was arrested. Few details are currently available on the reasons behind the journalist’s arrest. However, the daily “El […]
(FIJALGER/IFEX) – Independent journalist El Kadi Ihsane was recently arrested by border police at the Oum Tboul border post. Several Algerian newspapers have reported that the journalist was travelling to Tunisia on a family vacation when he was arrested.
Few details are currently available on the reasons behind the journalist’s arrest. However, the daily “El Watan” reports that, according to police sources, a former search warrant was allegedly reactivated by legal authorities for unknown reasons. The journalist was not informed of this development prior to his arrest.
El Kadi Ihsane was previously arrested in similar circumstances at the Algiers airport in 1998, as he was preparing to board a flight to Geneva.