![The experts condemned the court's ruling against Drareni and called for his immediate release [File: Ryad Kramdi/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/a1e6c0ed4afe42e89d83a276ed7a83e0_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
UN independent experts call on Algerian authorities to release Khaled Drareni after he was handed 2-year jail sentence.
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![Algerian protesters gather outside the court in Algiers in support of journalist Khaled Drareni during his appeal [AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/f6a658bfa3a24ac089aa8592aa87cf8f_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
Khaled Drareni sentenced to two years in jail amid crackdown on dissent following a year of anti-government protests.
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The reforms will be put to a referendum on the anniversary of the start of Algeria’s war of...
![Elected last December, Tebboune, pictured here, has pledged reforms and to meet demands raised in protests last year that toppled Bouteflika's government [File: Anadolu]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/3fa81f28d6524d99b6d045e3cb609996_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s office makes the announcement following months-long protests...
![Nora Belblidia with her grandparents at Sidi Fredj, the point at which the French invaded Algeria in 1830 [Photo courtesy of Nora Belblidia]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/277f6629efda49abb61bb7055bd6131f_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
An Algerian-American remembers her grandfather and the war that shaped her family.
![The sentence against Drareni is linked to protests that toppled President Abdelaziz Bouteflika last year [File: Ramzi Boudina/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ade1ee877b2f4fc4be10bbf73e603b28_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Khaled Drareni, editor of Casbah Tribune website and reporter with TV5 Monde, sentenced to three years in prison.
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The skulls of 24 combatants laid to rest after being repatriated from France where they were kept in a Parisian museum.
![President Tebboune believes that with President Macron, the two countries can go further in the appeasement process [File: AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/b3aca895723e46e4a7603f45135b14f4_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
‘We have already had half-apologies. The next step is needed … we await it,’ Abdelmadjid Tebboune says.
![French President Emmanuel Macron agreed in 2018 to repatriate the remains but bureaucratic obstacles delayed the return until now [AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ba18542a6f7c420e94bdf3788452940e_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The return of the skulls of 24 resistance fighters comes amid a growing global reckoning with the legacy of colonialism.
![Tabbou, 47, is one of the most prominent figures of Hirak - a movement that forced the downfall of longtime President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in April 2019 [Pierre Andrieu/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/5ef3e2f8d09a4f6da50b5a3702adb16a_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Key protest movement leaders released in the run-up to the country’s independence day.
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Algiers renews offer to mediate between warring sides in Libya as President Tebboune hosts PM al-Sarraj, Speaker Saleh.
![Bouraoui is a prominent activist in the 'Hirak' protest movement that secured the resignation of former president Bouteflika last April [Louafi Larbi/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/efad0abc3ce44432bf2b700c1a2b469e_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Bouraoui convicted on six counts, including ‘insulting the president’ and ‘insulting Islam’.
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Algeria, which has adopted a neutral stance on the Libyan conflict, says it rejects military intervention.
![The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and allies led by Russia, a group known as OPEC+, is debating holding ministerial talks as early as this weekend to discuss a possible extension of the existing cuts [FIle: Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/8610d5d8458f467f93391fd2b4c6a110_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Oil-exporting nations are set to meet on June 6-7 to discuss extending output cuts to buffer COVID-19’s hit on demand.