Algeria holds writer Boualem Sansal on national security charges: lawyer

Algerian authorities have remanded in custody on national security charges prominent French-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal following his arrest earlier this month that sparked alarm throughout the literary world, his French lawyer said on Tuesday.“Boualem Sansal… was today placed in detention“ on the basis of an article of the Algerian penal code „which punishes all attacks on state security…
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