Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Algeria - Journalist held without trial in eastern city for 15 months

(Version anglaise seulement)

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders calls on the Algerian authorities to allow imprisoned journalist Abdessami' Abdelhai to defend himself in fair and properly constituted legal proceedings. He began a hunger strike 12 days ago in protest against his detention without a trial in Tébessa (600 km east of Algiers) for the past 15 months. Abdelhai worked for a regional radio station in Tébessa and was the local correspondent of the Arabic-language daily Jaridati when arrested on 18 August 2013 for (...)

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