French author, Al -Jazari, Sansal, was sentenced to five years in prison Courts News

Algeria, the writer, imprisoned notes on the border with the regional competition, Morocco, raises tensions with France.

Algeria sentenced the French writer, Bagilian Benm Sansal, to five years in prison for “undermining national unity.”

A court in Dar Bida was sentenced, near the two bodies, composed on Thursday under the “anti -terrorism” laws after he conducted an interview with the French extremist media borders, where he asked about the borders that divide Algeria from Morocco, the regional competitor.

In the interview, which was published last October, Sansal argued that France re -translated the borders of Algeria in favor of the latter during the colonial period to include the lands that were affiliated with Morocco. The following month, he was arrested upon his arrival in Algeria.

The issue was tired of relations between Algeria and France, which was turned against last summer when France turned its position to identify Morocco’s sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara lands, which were more aggravated when Algeria rejected French attempts to return the Algerians to deport.

On Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron appealed to “well and the humanity of the Algerian authorities,” saying that he hoped to “give him (Sansal) his freedom and allow him to treat the disease that fights him.”

The French media reported that the author has cancer.

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Sansal, the 2011 -year -winning peace -winning of the German Book Trading Trading, was a critic of the Algerian authorities, but he visited the country regularly, and his books were sold there without restrictions.

The author, who refused the lawyers appointed by the court and chose to defend himself, denied the observations that violated the laws or were supposed to harm Algeria, according to Joseian Amin, the lawyer who was in the courtroom.

Amin said: “It is clear that he has the possibility to appeal. Now that he was sentenced to him, the president is among his rights to give him amnesty because he is a political card in the current crisis with France.”

Algerian President Abdul Hadi Gaid Tebboune Sansal, who lived in France, had previously criticized as “Antichrist”.

However, some observers suggested that the author pardon the presidency during the upcoming Islamic or national holidays.

The penalty for a period of five years is half of what the general prosecutors requested and less than the recommended for those accused under Article 87 of the Algerian Penal Code, which is the controversial statute of “fighting terrorism” implemented after the mass protests that faded the country in the past decade.

Human rights advocates in Algeria claim that laws have long been used to abolish anti -government votes.

The author was also fined 500,000 Algerian dinars (3,735 dollars).