The new Algerian regime continues to prosecute opponents.
An Algerian journalist and whistleblower is sentenced to prison on Tuesday by a court in Oran, according to their lawyer, Farid Khemisti. Saïd Boudour, journalist and activist of the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH), and Nourredine Tounsi, whistleblower, is “sentenced by default to imprisonment”, said the lawyer on his Facebook page.
Saïd Boudour was prosecuted in particular for “undermining the morale of the army for his publications on Facebook”, while his co-defendant was to answer for “intelligence with agents of a foreign power”, without further details, according to reports. local media. The prosecution had requested two years in prison against them.
90 people imprisoned for acts of protest
The two defendants did not attend their trial, which was held on October 27, the judge who refused the extraction from the prison of Nourredine Tounsi, in detention since September in Oran, said the National Committee for the Liberation. of prisoners (CNLD), an association supporting prisoners of conscience. In another libel lawsuit, Noureddine Tounsi was sentenced Tuesday by default to six months in prison, according to the CNLD.
The Algerian authorities have been targeting activists, political opponents, journalists, and Internet users for months, increasing the number of arrests, legal proceedings, and convictions, in order to prevent a resumption of the “Hirak”, the anti-regime protest movement, suspended by the health crisis. According to the CNLD, some 90 people are currently imprisoned for facts related to the protest in Algeria, most of them for posts on Facebook.
