The Algerian journalist Rabah Karèche had been sentenced on October 11, including “voluntary dissemination of false information likely to attack public order”.
Le Monde with AFP
Algerian journalist Rabah Karèche, Daily Liberty, incarcerated since April, came out of detention, Tuesday, October 19, after serving a six-month sentence at Tamanrasset Prison for the broadcast of “false information” , announced his diary.
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m. Karèche had been sentenced on the 11th of October, at one year in prison, six months old, two less than the sentence he had been inflicted at first instance in August. He has served the entire sentence, taking into account his remand for the duration of the trial.
“I only exert my job as a journalist”
m. Karèche had been condemned in particular for “voluntary dissemination of false information likely to attack public order”. He was also criticized for the “creation of an electronic account devoted to the dissemination of information that could cause segregation and hatred in society” and brought “the violation of safety and national unity”.
The journalist was charged and imprisoned on April 19 after publishing, in his diary and his Facebook page, the record of a Tuareg protest movement, local Berber minority. Quoted by his diary, he told his release from prison:
“I am a victim of a serious injustice. I only exert my job as a journalist with professionalism.”
Algeria occupies the 146 e (on 180 countries) of the World Classification of the NGO Reporters Without Borders.