A court in Algeria has upheld Franco-Algerian author Boualem Sansal's five-year prison sentence in a case that has raised alarm over freedom of expression in Algeria and pushed tensions with France to the brink.
The Académie Française prize-winning author of "2084: la fin du monde" (“2084: The End of the World”), a dystopian novel set in an Islamist totalitarian society following nuclear war, was charged in March under Algeria’s anti-terrorism laws and convicted of “undermining national unity."
