Algerian blogger on hunger strike over seven-year jail term

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) reiterates its support for Merzoug Touati, an imprisoned Algerian blogger who has been on hunger strike for the past ten days in protest against his seven-year jail sentence on charges of “complicit relations with a foreign power” and “inciting rebellion.” His case must be reexamined at once. Detained since the beginning of last year, Touati stopped eating on 8 July to press his demands for his release, the quashing of his conviction and the withdrawal of all judicial proceedings agains

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