PARIS: France’s President Emmanuel Macron will work toward the release of a French journalist in jail in Algeria “as soon as possible,” his office said Thursday, a day after an Algerian court confirmed his incarceration. An appeals court upheld a seven-year prison term against Christophe Gleizes, a sports journalist who was jailed in June on terrorism-related charges. Gleizes, 36, is France’s only journalist imprisoned abroad, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF). His jailing comes at a time of diplomatic friction between France and its former colony Algeria.

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…

PARIS: The French government on Wednesday criticized the decision by an Algerian court to uphold a seven-year jail sentence for French journalist Christophe Gleizes despite its…

E’ accusato di apologia di terrorismo e “possesso di pubblicazioni con finalità di propaganda nociva all’interesse nazionale”. Il reporter, arrestato nel maggi…

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.

PARIS: France’s President Emmanuel Macron will work toward the release of a French journalist in jail in Algeria “as soon as possible,” his office said Thursday, a day after an…

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…