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Why is there no campaign to free novelist Boualem Sansal?

22 February 2025

9:00 AM

22 February 2025

9:00 AM

Paris

What possible crime has the award-winning novelist Boualem Sansal committed that merits being locked away for three months now by the Algerian police?

Listen to the Algerian government – and its cheerleaders on social media – and theanswer appears to be that he is at best a stooge for the French far right, at worst an outright traitor.

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