24/05/2018
Court in Algeria sentences blogger to 10 years in prison
New York, May 24, 2018--In a one-day trial today, a criminal court in B?ja?a sentenced Algerian blogger Marzoug Touati to 10 years in prison and fined him 50,000 Algerian dinar (US$427) for communicating with a foreign entity and inciting civil disobedience, Touati's lawyer, Salah Dabouz, told CPJ. The conviction is related to Touati's interview with an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman, which the blogger posted to the YouTube page of independent site al-Hogra in January 2017, according to news reports. ......
