Rabat-the French-Algerian writers Boualem Sansal, who has been locked up in Algeria in Algeria since mid-November, has refused to eat since Monday, his lawyer said on Sunday.
He described the move as an act of despair and cited concerns about the treatment of Sansal and the conditions of his detention.
“I’m afraid of his health and his right to a fair procedure,” said François Zimeray, the French lawyer who represented Sansal.
Zimeray, who has not received a visa for visiting Algeria and the meeting with his client, said Sansal took this step after exposing the pressure to change lawyers.
Report Suggest that the Algerian authorities have asked him to have his current legal counsel in favor of another “other French lawyer who is not Jewish”.
“Despite my measured approach to defend him, the personal attacks against me in some Algerian media and my efforts to respect the country’s legal framework, the authorities continue to block my visa without justification. This decision deprives Boualem Sansal from the right to choose his own defense, ”said Zimeray.
His lawyer also warned that Sansal’s prison had stopped medical treatment after starting the hunger strike.
Algerian authorities have charged Sansal in accordance with Article 87 of the Criminal Code, defined actions that threaten the security of state security, territorial integrity or the stability of institutions as terrorism or subversion.
Officials reacted strongly to his interview with Frontières, an extreme right -wing French publication, in which he repeated the position of Morocco that his territory had been reduced under the French colonial rule for Algeria’s advantage.
Writers and intellectuals have convicted his arrest and described the charges unfounded.
In January, French President Emmanuel Macron Algeria sharply criticized the fact that he had arrested sansal and described the country’s actions as “shame”.
Talk to the French ambassadors in the Élysée, he, he accused The Algerian authorities to refuse medical care to the sick writer.
“Algeria doesure himself by preventing a severe sick man from receiving adequate care,” said the French President.
