A public prosecutor in Algeria has requested a 10-year prison sentence against French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal.

Algeria's prosecutor general sought at an appeal hearing on Tuesday 10 years in prison for novelist Boualem Sansal, doubling his current sentence, an AFP journalist in the courtroom reported.

President Emmanuel Macron caught many by surprise when he dissolved the National Assembly and called snap parliamentary ...

The French-Algerian author was originally sentenced in March to five years in prison and a fine of 500,000 dinars.

After an undeclared truce by French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, he once again dug into the ashes of the escalating ...