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Mother of jailed French journalist asks Algerian president for pardon

French sports journalist Christophe Gleizes' mother Sylvie Godard and his stepfather Francis Godard at the Reporters sans frontieres (RSF- Reporters Without Borders) headquarters in Paris, on 27 August, 2025. © AFP - STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN

The mother of jailed French journalist Christophe Gleizes wrote a letter to Algeria's president requesting he pardon her son from his seven-year sentence on terror-related charges.

"I respectfully ask you to consider granting Christophe a pardon, so that he may regain his freedom and his family," Sylvie Godard wrote in the letter to President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, dated 10 December.

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