Algeria: Provincial Reporter Sentenced to Two Months in Prison Two Years After Leaving Newspaper

Reporters sans Frontières (Paris)

18 November 2008

Reporters Without Borders condemns the two-month prison sentence which an appeal court in Saida (440 km southwest of Algiers) imposed on journalist Hassan Bourras on 28 October 2008 in addition to the fine of 40,000 dinars (460 euros) to which he was originally sentenced.