Algeria Blogosphere

Bejamin Weinthal at JPost: Algeria Releases Blogger Who Dared To Interview Israeli MFA Official…….


 

After sitting two years in an Algerian can, they finally release him…

 

ALGERIA RELEASES BLOGGER JAILED FOR INTERVIEW WITH ISRAEL

Housing Minister in Algeria alleged Israel was behind Arab Spring.

BY BENJAMIN WEINTHAL
 MARCH 5, 2019 00:59
A demonstrator waves an Algerian flag
Algeria’s government released blogger Marzoug Touati on Monday who had launched a hunger strike last July to protest his seven-year prison term he received after interviewing an Israeli Foreign Ministry official.
The Committee to Protect Journalists wrote on its Middle East and North Africa Twitter feed: Today, blogger Marzoug Touati was freed after a criminal court sentenced him to two years in prison, which he already served, in addition to a three-year suspended sentence
CPJ MENA wrote that “Marzoug Touati was initially handed a 10 year prison sentence on charges of ‘intelligence with a foreign power’ after the blogger interviewed an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson. Today, he finally walks free.”

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