Algeria: Reporter Jailed After Covering Tuareg Protests in Southern Algeria

press release

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Algerian authorities to free Rabah Karèche, the newspaper Liberté's correspondent in Tamanrasset, 900 km south of Algiers, who has been held since 19 April after covering protests by the Ahaggar region's Tuareg population against new territorial divisions.

A Tamanrasset criminal court today denied a request for Karèche's release that was submitted by his lawyers.

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