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Christophe Gleizes’s sentencing on appeal by an Algerian court has sent shockwaves just as all signs pointed to a thaw in relations between Paris and Algiers. The apparent, perhaps temporary, failure of diplomacy has put Paris in an awkward position and reignited the campaign to support the journalist.
Political change in Paris and German mediation led to the release of writer Boualem Sansal in Algiers. A victory for diplomacy over confrontation.
Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal was sentenced to five years in prison in Algiers — the day after French journalist Christophe Gleizes had received a seven-year jail sentence. Could a presidential pardon for Sansal ease tensions?