French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou urged Algeria to pardon imprisoned writer Boualem Sansal after an Algerian court upheld his five-year sentence for undermining national unity. Sansal, a dual French-Algerian citizen and critic of both Algeria’s government and Islamism, has been incarcerated since November and is reportedly suffering from prostate cancer.
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France’s prime minister is asking Algeria to let a sick writer, Boualem Sansal, out of prison after a court decided to keep him in for speaking about history.
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