Aged 36, Christophe Gleizes has been held in Tizi Ouzou for more than five months. Arrested in Kabylie while reporting on a football club, he was sentenced in June to seven years in prison for 'glorifying terrorism.' His appeal trial opens on December 3.

Aged 36, Christophe Gleizes has been held in Tizi Ouzou for more than five months. Arrested in Kabylie while reporting on a football club, he was sentenced in June to seven years…

Sports journalist Christophe Gleizes has been detained in Algeria since 2024, accused of 'glorifying terrorism.' The ruling dashed hopes raised by a recent diplomatic thaw and…

The journalist, who was sentenced in the first instance to seven years in prison for advocating terrorism, had his sentence upheld by the Tizi Ouzou Court of Appeal on Wednesday.

EDITORIAL. Against Algeria's own objective interests, the seven-year prison sentence handed down to Gleizes, a French citizen, in Tizi Ouzou reinforces the image of a regime…