The prosecution of Boualem Sansal, who is around 80, prompted outrage from the global literary community and pleas from France for his release. By Ephrat Livni An Algerian French writer whose ...

TUNIS/PARIS, March 27 (Reuters) - An Algerian court sentenced French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal to five years in jail on Thursday for undermining national unity, prompting a call for his ...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — A court in Algeria on Thursday sentenced an award-winning French-Algerian writer to five years in prison over remarks that questioned the borders dividing Algeria from ...

The verdict in a legal case that has been stirring up diplomatic tensions between Algeria and France for several months was delivered in a brief statement read out on the morning of Thursday ...

France's President Emmanuel Macron is urging Algeria to free an 80-year-old writer who was sentenced on Tuesday to five years in prison, following accusations he had undermined Algeria's ...

French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, who has been ensnared in an unprecedented diplomatic crisis between Algiers and Paris, was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison for undermining ...