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Jonny Walfisz

French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal given five year prison sentence

French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal has been sentenced to five years in prison in Algeria for undermining the country’s territorial integrity.

Sansal was arrested in November last year at Algiers airport after he said that France unfairly ceded Moroccan territory to Algeria to far-right French media outlet Frontières. Since his detention, Sansal has spent most of this time in hospital due to a cancer diagnosis.

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