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LThe indictment chamber of the Algiers Court of Appeal rejected, Wednesday December 11, the request for launch made by the attorneys of the Franco-Algerian author Boualem Sansal, three weeks after his arrest, a t -we realized from Me François Zimeray, his lawyer in France.
Arrested in mid-November at Algiers airport, Boualem Sansal was charged and imprisoned on November 26, on the idea of article 87 bis of the Algerian Penal Code. This catch-all textual content, which represses the taking of hostages, the hijacking of plane in addition to gatherings in public locations, punishes with the loss of life penalty “terrorist or sabotage acts”, actions “aimed at security of the State, territorial integrity, stability and normal functioning of institutions. As the death penalty is no longer applied since a moratorium decided in 1993, the writer risks life imprisonment.
Placed under arrest warrant on November 26, after several days of interrogation and police custody, Boualem Sansal, aged 80, was first imprisoned in the penitentiary section of the Moustapha hospital in Algiers, before to be transferred to Koléa prison, 35 km from the Algerian capital.
An “obstruction to the exercise of defense rights”
The 1962 agreements permit, in principle, a French lawyer to intervene alongside his Algerian colleagues in a process opened in Algeria, and vice versa. However, Me François Zimeray didn’t get hold of a visa to plead earlier than the indictment chamber this Wednesday, as he had deliberate. Stranded in France, Me Zimeray denounced at the start of the week “an obstacle to the exercise of the rights of the defense, without which there is no fair trial”.
The lawyer additionally regretted that the protection was not knowledgeable of the switch of the writer of 2084, the top of the world (Gallimard) to a different place of detention. “I am worried about the health of my client and the fairness of a procedure which seems very opaque,” lamented Monday Me Zimeray.
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The President of Paris, Me Pierre Hofman confirmed his assist by affirming, in a message posted on X (previously Twitter), that “the rights of defense are not variable”.
Kamel Daoud, columnist at Point and Prix Goncourt 2024 for his novel Houris (Gallimard), by no means stops defending his colleague and good friend, calling for continued mobilization.
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