Amira Bouraoui, activist and political opponent and Franco-Algerian journalist, is now in France. The latter was arrested in Tunisia on February 3 at the airport when she wanted to board for France and risked deportation to Algeria, where she should have served a two-year prison sentence. The Algerian journalist and opponent Amira Bouraoui will therefore have escaped extradition to Algeria from Tunisia where she had found refuge a few days ago.
Indeed, Amira Bouraoui arrived in Tunisia on February 3, 2023, Amira Bouraoui had been “arrested while she was trying to board a flight for France with her French passport”, explained Me Badra. The doctor by training was then placed in pre-trial detention until his appearance on February 6 before a judge, who decided on his release, adjourning his case to February 23, he said.
Amira Bouraoui, who risked being deported to Algeria, will not return there in the end. The political activist, arrested in Tunisia, was on the evening of Monday February 6 on a plane bound for France, according to statements by her French lawyer François Zimeray. Who had also denounced an “attempted kidnapping and sequestration by certain authorities responsible for law enforcement in Tunisia, at the request of the Algerian authorities”. Threatening to file a complaint for kidnapping with the Paris prosecutor’s office.
Why is Amira Bouraoui forbidden to leave Algerian territory?
Amira Bouraoui, a former opposition figure during the reign of ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, was imprisoned in the course of 2020 on several charges. She was released in July 2020. She is facing a two-year prison sentence for “offending” Islam for comments made on her Facebook page. As part of her convictions, she was subject to a ban on leaving the territory of Algeria.
