Algeria: media increasingly under pressure as presidential election approaches

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the fact that Algerian journalists are under growing pressure from their bosses to portray the coming presidential election favourably although most Algerians oppose it. The authorities must respect journalistic pluralism and debate during the election campaign, RSF said. Four journalists with the pro-government daily Le Temps d’Algérie were suspended without warning on 19 November in a dispute sparked by a Facebook post by one of the four, Aissa Mo

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