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 ...

An Algerian court on Tuesday upheld a five-year jail sentence for French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal who was arrested in November for saying in an interview that France had unfairly ceded ...

The writer, Boualem Sansal, an outspoken author who is critical of Islamic fundamentalism and of the Algerian government, was born in Algeria and became a French citizen last year.

A court in Algeria has upheld Franco-Algerian author Boualem Sansal's five-year prison sentence in a case that has raised alarm over freedom of expression in Algeria and pushed tensions with ...

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 ...

FILE - Boualem Sansal speaks during the 62 edition of International Film Festival Berlinale, in Berlin Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File) ...

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 ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday he was concerned about the detention and the health of Franco-Algerian author Boualem Sansal in Algeria, and added that it was time to review ...

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 ...