Algeria’s prosecutor general sought at an appeal hearing on Tuesday 10 years in prison for writer Boualem Sansal, doubling ...

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

Less than a week before the Algiers Judicial Council issued its final decision in the case of Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, the French side sent flirtatious messages to the Algerian ...

Boualem Sansal, trained as an engineer and with a doctorate in economics, belongs to a generation of post-independence, Berber-origin, Francophone, separation of mosque-and-state liberals who ...

The prosecution of Boualem Sansal, who is around 80, prompted outrage from the global literary community and pleas from France for his release. By Ephrat Livni An Algerian French writer whose ...

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

Algerian author Boualem Sansal speaks during the 62 edition of International Film Festival Berlinale, in Berlin Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. Credit: AP/Markus Schreiber ...

The 75-year-old novelist, Boualem Sansal, disappeared for about a week after being detained on Nov. 16, with the Algerian government neither announcing his arrest not offering an explanation for it.

Algerian writer Boualem Sansal delivers his speech after receiving the Peace Prize of German book seller's association "Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels" during a ceremony in Frankfurt ...

The case against 76-year-old Boualem Sansal has become a flashpoint in growing tensions between the Algerian and French governments. French President Emmanuel Macron later Thursday called for his ...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — A court in Algeria on Thursday sentenced an award-winning French-Algerian writer to five years in prison over remarks that questioned the borders dividing Algeria from ...