Algerian journalist jailed pending trial for ‘espionage’
Independent journalist and fixer Said Chitour was charged with espionage and arrested on 5 June at Algiers International Airport.
Karima Bennoune: More than just competing extremisms
UN Special Rapporteur on cultural rights speaks to IFEX about fundamentalism, arts and the language of understanding.
Algerian writer under threat of arrest on blasphemy charges
Writer and human rights defender Anouar Rahmani is currently the subject of a criminal investigation for allegedly insulting Islam following the publication of his latest novel, “Jibril’s Hallucination”.
Algerian journalist faces treason charges
Algerian security forces arrested Marzoug Touati, an editor of the news website Al-Hogra, on 18 January and have since held him in administrative detention on treason and incitement charges.
Algerian faces 25 years over Israeli official interview
Morocco charges blogger with “exchanging intelligence with a foreign power” over a YouTube interview with a Foreign Ministry spokesperson.
British-Algerian journalist’s death shocks nation
Algerian journalist and blogger Mohammad Tamalt was laid to rest in Algiers as a result of a two-month hunger strike in protest of his arrest.
Algeria’s Facebook lament
After a Facebook poem lands an Algerian journalist in jail for two years, is anyone’s free speech safe in Algeria?
Algeria’s alarming trend
Independent journalists and human rights defenders are feeling the wrath of the government, as arrests become increasingly common.
Independent journalism under threat in Algeria
Algerian media outlets KBC TV and the El Watan newspaper were both victims of police operations on 23 June. In both cases, the authorities said the media outlets lacked the necessary permits. They gave the same grounds five days ago when seals were placed on the studios used to record the KBC programme Ki hna Ki enass, which employs 70 people.
Algerian labor rights defender Belkacem Khencha convicted for Facebook video
“Algerian courts are not only convicting people who participate in peaceful labor protests,” reports Sarah Leah Whitson, HRW’s Middle East and North Africa director. “Now they’re punishing people who protest against such unfair convictions.”
Algerian Prime Minister calls for ‘clean up’ of the broadcasting sector
The prime minister said the aim of his draconian initiative was to stop those broadcasters that are “crossing red lines” and are attacking “the values and principles of Algerian society” and the “nation’s foundations.”
Fined for a Facebook post: Algeria’s criminalization of caricatures
The police arrested Zouleikha Belarbi and questioned her about a Facebook post showing the faces of Algerian political figures, including President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, photoshopped as the Sultan and his entourage in a well-known Turkish television series called “Sultan’s Harem.”
Teachers beaten, arrested during labour protests in Algeria
Police in Algiers beat teachers demonstrating for greater job security on March 21 and 22, 2016, injuring at least two. Police also arrested dozens of protesters and held them for several hours, then released them without charge.
Pro-autonomy Algerian activists detained, could face death penalty
Pro-Amazigh activist, Kameleddine Fekhar, and his 24 co-defendants, are charged with participating in a terrorist act and inciting hatred, for their alleged role in violent confrontations between the Amazigh and the Arab communities on July 7 in the Mzab.
Authorities launch attack on satire in Algeria using censorship as a weapon
The suspension of “Weekend,” a satirical programme broadcast by El Djazaira TV on Friday evenings, has triggered outrage on social networks.
Algerian authorities step up harassment of print media
Last week saw another attempt by the president’s office to intimidate the opposition media, exacerbating what has been a difficult climate for the Algerian press since President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s reelection in April 2014.