On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Revolution, the President of Algeria pardoned 4,000 people, including journalists.

President of Algeria Abdelmadjid Tebbuneindultó este jueves a 4000 prisoners con motivo del 70th anniversary of the beginning of the revolutionIt is celebrated on November 1. Los dos decretos presidentales afectaron a publico orden derecho comun y de alteración del condenados en casos derecho. De esta manera, varios presos de conciencia han quedado en libertad, entre ellos los journalistas Omar Ferhat y Sofian Ghirous say Algeria Scoope Ihsane El Kadisay the director Radio M y Maghreb Emergent.

This Thursday, after 22 months of imprisonment, Ihsane El Kadi was released from El Harrach (Algeria) prison, where he was held since December 29, 2022. él. He could not communicate during the protests of the Hirak movement An agreement was reached on the resignation of President Abdulaziz Bouteflika in 2019.

Reporteros sin Fronteras (RSF) “welcomed” the amnesty, which has been requested on various occasions. “Protect Ihsane Al Kadi's freedom.” Esta medida pone fin al More than 23 months of testing for this great journalist and your family,” said Khalid Drareni, RSF's representative in North Africa. The organization recalled in a statement that “Nunja should have been arrested.” Similarly, they hope that “una s“Eñal para el liftamiento de las limitations a la libertad de prensa”.

Al Kadi Ihsane was arrested at his home in Zemmouri on the night of December 24, 2022, and remanded in custody in El Harrach prison on December 29 by the investigating judge of the Sidi M'hamed Tribunal in Algeria. He was sentenced to five years in prison (two en libertad provisional), although the Tribunal de Apelación increased the sentence to seven years (two en libertad conditional), “for obtaining funds and advantages from foreign sources for the purpose of political propaganda” and “The news violated the security of the state (…) and public order”. We are talking about articles 95 and 95 bis of the Algerian Criminal Code.

Además, controversial information law castiga a los medias argelinos que reciban cualquier ayuda material o malliance del extranjero As with Ihsane El Kadi, with punitive sanctions including confiscation of assets and fines exceeding €13,000. The tribunal also ordered the dissolution of Interface Médias que publica los dos digitales and the confiscation of its materials.

Guilt embargo, “This charge was not proven at trial.” You realidad de trataba amount of money was sent by her daughter who lives and works in Londony también es accionista de Interface Médias, la empresa de Ihsane El Kadi, redactora Radio M y Maghreb Emergentestaba destinada a pagar los salarios de los empleados”, explained Khaled Draneri.

“You look at the reviews”

His family has always condemned the journalist as “incarcerado por sus opinions”. In a statement to his family, he wrote that they had “contacted colleagues and colleagues before Algiers”.

RSF He led an important international campaign for the release of this journalist, “Respetado en Algeria y en el extranjero por su independencia y su rectitude”, he also defended the journalist. Khalid Draneri. Specifically, the organization contacted the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of freedom of thought and expression, as well as the Media Freedom Coalition. He also met with 16 editors from 14 countries, including Nobel Peace Prize laureates Dmitry Muratovto release. More than 20,000 signatures have been collected in the international petition launched by RSF to defend Ihsane El Qadi, who has always fought for a free and independent Algerian press, the first 13,000 signatures have been collected. Embassy of Algeria in Paris. It was the second most signed petition on the RSF platform after Julien Assange.

Break free from digital journalism Algeria ScoopOmar Ferhat and Sofiane Ghirous have been in preventive detention since June 2024, according to a video published in their media. jóvenes saharauis quejándose de marginalación.

Actually, since 2019 una twentyna de journalistas hansido juzgados It controls the freedom of the world according to the classification of countries from 136 to 180 in Algeria.

Esta medida popular de libera a los presos de conciencia se asemeja al indulto real de Mohamed VI on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his accession in July. Entonces, el rey marroquí también indultó ve tres journalism incarcelados, Omar Radi, Suleiman Raissouni y Taofik Bouachriney liberó de suspenas y procesos and other colleges.

Rather, Marruecos fue el gran absent en una fiesta tan bolica en AlgiersIt commemorates the beginning of the War of Independence, which lasted eight years until Algeria gained independence from France in 1954. In fact, the rest of the Maghreb countries marked the meeting to talk about a “new Maghreb project”. Among the guests of honor was the President of Tunisia. Kays said; el homologo mauritano, Mohamed Ould Ghazouani; Head of the Libyan Presidential Council, Muhammad Menfi; and Secretary General of the Polisario Front and President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (ASD), Brahim Ghali.

Argel celebró un a grand military parade Accompanied by the national anthem, 70 canonazos and military music. This is the second of its kind since President Abdelmadjid Tebboune came to power in December 2019. The first year of his reign was celebrated on July 5, 2022, with an incredible display of arms on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of national independence.