This Sunday, the French sports journalist Christophe Gleizes, who collaborated in particular for SO Foot, was sentenced to seven years in prison after a 13 -month judicial control. As indicated by reporters Without Borders, a call will however be “Interjected tomorrow, Monday June 30”. Arrived in Algeria in May 2024 for a subject on the Kabylia sports youth club, Christophe Gleizes was finally arrested on May 28, 2024 in Tizi Ouzou and placed under judicial supervision, to be “Entering the country with a tourist visa”pour “Apology of terrorism” et “Possession of publications for the purpose of propaganda harming the national interest”.
« These last accusations, without foundation and completely refuted, are due to the fact that the journalist had contacts, in 2015 and 2017, with the head of the Tizi Ouzou football club, also responsible for the Kabylia self -determination movement (MAK), classified terrorist organization by the Algerian authorities in 2021 “Said the press defense NGO. “His conviction to 7 years in prison has no meaning and demonstrates only one fact: nothing escapes politics today and the Algerian justice has missed an important opportunity to go out from the top in this case”added the director general of RSF, Thibaut Bruttin.
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