ALGIERS: The appeal trial of a French sports journalist jailed in Algeria on accusations of “glorifying terrorism” has been scheduled for December 3, his lawyer said Friday.
A contributor to the magazines So Foot and Society, Christophe Gleizes, 36, was sentenced in late June to seven years in prison.
“The case of French journalist Christophe Gleizes is scheduled for December 3, 2025, at the criminal appeal court in Tizi Ouzou,” 110 kilometers (70 miles) east of Algiers, his lawyer, Amirouche Bakouri, said on Facebook.
Gleizes had traveled to Tizi Ouzou to write about the local football club Jeunesse Sportive de Kabylie, named after Algeria’s Kabylia region, home to the Amazigh Kabyle people.
He is accused by the judiciary of having been in contact with a local football figure prominent in the Movement for the Self-Determination of Kabylie (MAK), designated a terrorist organization by the authorities in 2021.
