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Repressions grow in Algeria, is freedom of speech in danger?

Photo proclaiming that 'Journalism is not a crime' shared by the campaign to free Mustapha on social media [Freedom for Mustapha Bendjama campaign via Facebook]

Since February 2019, Mustapha Bendjama, the editor of the daily newspaper Le Provincial, has been held by police forces and interrogated at least 35 times.

In his hometown of Annaba in eastern Algeria, he has been under constant pressure from authorities due to what his allies say are his consistent challenges to government policies.

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