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French journalist Gleizes marks one year in Algerian prison as RSF renews appeal

The President of the Bouches-du-Rhone Departmental Council Martine Vassal unveils a banner bearing French sports journalist Christophe Gleizes, detained in Algeria, in the main hall of the Departmental Archives and Library Gaston Deferre in Marseille on 2 June 2026.
The President of the Bouches-du-Rhone Departmental Council Martine Vassal unveils a banner bearing French sports journalist Christophe Gleizes, detained in Algeria, in the main hall of the Departmental Archives and Library Gaston Deferre in Marseille on 2 June 2026. AFP - MIGUEL MEDINA

French sports journalist Christophe Gleizes has now spent a year in detention in Algeria, prompting fresh calls from Reporters Without Borders and his family for his immediate release and a presidential pardon.

37-year-old Gleizes, who contributes to the magazines So Foot and Society, was sentenced on 29 June 2025 to seven years in prison for “glorifying terrorism”.

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