Algeria : prosecutor requests two-month sentence for newspaper editor and reporter Sources News Release
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Publisher: Reporters without Borders Date Written: 18/12/08 Year Published: 2008 Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Reporters Without Borders calls on the authorities to withdraw a criminal libel prosecution against the Algiers-based daily El Watan over a 2004 article accusing a â#oraquiâ## (faith healer and exorcist) of being a charlatan.
Abstract: Reporters Without Borders calls on the authorities to withdraw a criminal libel prosecution against the Algiers-based daily El Watan over a 2004 article accusing a â#oraquiâ## (faith healer and exorcist) of being a charlatan. A prosecutor requested a two-month prison sentence for the newspaperâ##s editor, Omar Belhouchet, and one of his reporters, Salima TlemA#ani, when they appeared before a court in the Algiers district of Sidi Mâ##hammed today to answer the charge. The faith healer who brough... To read the full release go to http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR108.htm
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