The Bab El Oued court prosecutor on Sunday requested a three-year prison sentence and a fine of 100,000 dinars (nearly $ 720) against Fethi Ghares, an Algerian opponent imprisoned at the end of June in particular for “undermining the person of the President of the Republic”, indicated the National Committee for the Release of Detainees (CNLD).
The verdict will be rendered on January 9, posted on his Facebook page Massouda Chaballah, the wife of Fethi Ghares, 47 years old. This opponent is the coordinator of the Democratic and Social Movement (MDS), a small left political formation. He was arrested and imprisoned at the end of June and his house on the outskirts of the capital, Algiers, had been searched.
Apart from the personal attack on the Algerian Head of State, Fethi Ghares is also the subject of prosecution for “contempt of body” and “dissemination of information that could undermine national unity” and “public order”.
A known activist of the left and secular opposition, this political figure became involved in 2019 in the Hirak, a popular protest movement which campaigns for a total overhaul of the system of governance in place in Algeria since independence in 1962.
