Prosecuted for" inciting unarmed assembly "and" attacking national unity ", the journalist was sentenced at first instance to three years in prison,

During his appeal, Khaled Drareni rejected the charges against him.

"I only did my job as a journalist. I'm here because I covered the hirak in complete independence," he pleaded.

This unjust decision condemns the profession of journalism and freedom of expression, as well as the citizen's right to information enshrined in the Algerian Constitution.

The conviction of Khaled Drareni is a political decision that only the Head of State must assume

This verdict confirms the general regression of freedoms and the criminalization of the exercise of citizenship enshrined in the constitution in force.

nothing can justify sentencing a journalist to prison for his professional activities

We are scandalized by the blind stubbornness of the Algerian judges […].

His continued detention is proof of the regime's confinement in a logic of absurd, unjust and violent repression.

After Bouteflika?

It's Bouteflika, without a doubt.

Surely.

That is to say, the eternal subsistence of the authoritarian regime and its despotic means, that is to say "justice".

A regime in which it is preferable to empty the coffers of an entire nation rather than to exercise, nobly, the profession of journalist.

[…] From now on,

Le Matin d'Algérie, the Algerian political scene is split between an We who chant loud and clear: "Let them all go" and a Them who cling to the apparatuses of power in replying: "We all stay there" and "We imprison you all", in the event of ingratitude towards the "freedoms" conveyed by the "new Republic", post-Bouteflika, post-deconfinement.

It is true that in Algeria, it is not good to show its support for Khaled Drareni

the National Committee for the release of detainees regularly lists the judicial summons of citizens accused" of contempt of body constituted "or" of attack on the person of the president "as a result of posts on Facebook.

In this tense climate, some citizens find it difficult to openly show their support for Khaled Drareni.

[…] "I know magistrates, executives who have been in ministries since the Bouteflika era, and they are all on Facebook, that prevents me from showing my support for Drareni",

"I have a lot of acquaintances affiliated with a party close to the power who sent me hostile messages and comments when I shared my opinion about Khaled Drareni".

Le Monde Afrique

in Algeria, where hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets as part of Hirak, the popular movement to protest the regime, at least 46 people are still behind bars for crime of 'opinion.

The ECOWAS maintains its demand for the appointment of a civilian president and prime minister

L'Indépendant

The ECOWAS, by its decisions of yesterday, put the CNSP in a particularly uncomfortable situation,

indeed how the soldiers could they explain to the Malians that they remain under embargo, because of a problem of president and Prime Minister who would not come out of their ranks

?

The Country

murderous posture: ECOWAS could say that certain points of the charter are contrary to its texts.

But,

Le Pays, are these texts better or are they superior to the popular will of a democratic nation?