Reporters sans Frontières (Paris)
18 December 2008
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 "raqui" (faith healer and exorcist) of being a charlatan. A prosecutor requested a two-month prison sentence for the newspaper's editor, Omar Belhouchet, and one of his reporters, Salima Tlemçani, when they appeared before a ...
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