Rabat-a French support committee called for a demonstration in Paris on Tuesday to request the release of the French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, arrested in Algeria.
According to the AFP, the committee describes The 10-year sentence against him as a “death sentence” applied for.
“This affects all committed citizens, human rights defenders, freedom representatives and cultural personalities. It is our responsibility to stand against this dark fate,” said the committee in a calling published by the La Tribune dimanche.
The call for action is supported by the signatures of prominent personalities, including Noëlle Lenoir, former member of the Constitutional Council and president of the support committee, former Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer, and the writers Georges-Marc Benamou and Alexandre Jardin.
A process with political underflowing
The Algerian prosecutors applied for a 10-year prison sentence for Sansal (80) and accused him of being able to undermine the territorial integrity of Algeria. His arrest on November 16 in Algier deepened the tensions between Paris and Algiers.
The charges result from the remarks that he knew in October during an interview with Frontières, a French media company, for his right -wing extremist attitude. In this interview, he repeated Morocco’s claim that parts of his territory were ceded to Algeria during the French colonial era.
Sansal is facing law enforcement in accordance with Article 87 to Algeria’s Criminal Code, which classifies a classification of a law as terrorism or subversion that endangers state security, territorial integrity, stability or institutional functions.
Causes regarding his health, diplomatic patient situation
His supporters see his detention as politically motivated. “He involuntarily became a farmer in the troubled relationship between Paris and Algiers,” said the committee.
The signatories criticize the diplomatic approach that has been pursued so far and argue that “discrete dialogue and soft methods have not brought any concrete results”. They warn that Sansal’s state deteriorates due to detention and the cancer he is fighting.
In January the French President Emmanuel Macron was sharp criticized Algeria for the detained renowned writer Boualem Sansal and denounced the move as a “shame”. In front of the French ambassadors in the Élysée, Macron accused the Algerian authorities of refusing to access medical care to the severe sick author.
“Algeria doesure himself by preventing a severe sick man from getting adequate care,” said Macron.
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