A French writer and a journalist are likely excluded from pardon measures granted by Algerian president
The pardon decree signed by the Algerian head of state did not provide a list of the individuals to benefit from the gesture, but instead set out categories of detainees who would be excluded. One such category was "authors of attacks or plots against the authority of the state, national unity, or territorial integrity," which appeared to rule out the writer, since Algerian justice had convicted him of endangering state security, territorial integrity, and the stability of institutions. The charges stemmed from remarks made by Sansal in a filmed interview with the far-right magazine Frontières, in which he spoke about the western region of Algeria belonging to Morocco.
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