An Algerian journalist was indicted and imprisoned on Monday for disseminating false information that could “undermine public security” after an article on a Tuareg protest movement in the great south of Algeria, according to an association in solidarity with the detainees of opinion.
Rabah Karèche, a correspondent for the French-language daily Liberté in Tamanrasset, was “placed under a committal warrant” after his hearing by an investigating judge of the court of this city in the Algerian Sahara, said the National Committee for the Liberation of Detainees (CNLD ).
The Liberté journalist was brought to justice after spending the night in custody at the Tamanrasset central police station from Sunday to Monday, according to the Liberté web edition.
He was summoned by the police on Sunday, following the publication the same day of a detailed article on a demonstration by the Tuaregs of Ahaggar, in the same region, who were protesting against a “new territorial division”.
Rabah Karèche, an experienced journalist established for a long time in Tamanrasset, had notably reported that the inhabitants of this region denounced the “expropriation of their lands for the benefit” of the wilayas (prefectures) of Djanet and Illizi, newly created in the south. of the country, thanks to a new territorial division.
The Tuareg populations of the extreme south of Algeria, Berber speakers, regularly denounce their economic and social marginalization within a very centralized State.
