Imprisoned journalists, closed media, judicial harassment and intimidation… It is an authoritarian takeover of the press that the Algerian government has been operating since the end of the Hirak, these massive demonstrations which succeeded in April 2019 in pushing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to give up his stand for a fifth term and resign. Each event provokes a paragraph. The overall picture is increasingly alarming.
Last arbitrary arrest to date, that of journalist Ihsane El Kadi. The director of Radio M and the Maghreb Emergent news site was taken into police custody on December 24, 2022, a few days after the publication of articles critical of the authorities. On December 29, he was imprisoned in El Harrach prison in Algiers.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which denounced in this arrest the clear desire to muzzle the independent media in Algeria, urgently seized Irène Khan, the UN special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. ” The United Nations must demand the immediate release of Ihsane El Kadi and the pure and simple abandonment of the spurious charges which only aim to silence him”said the NGO for the defense of press freedom in a press release.
The appeal of the Nobel Peace Prize
Brought together by RSF, Dmitry Muratov, the editor-in-chief of the Russian daily “Novaya Gazeta” and Nobel Peace Prize winner, and 15 other media directors and
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