Marrakech – Algeria has agreed to pardon and transfer Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal to Germany for medical treatment, following a humanitarian request from German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the Algerian presidency announced on Wednesday.
The statement said President Abdelmadjid Tebboune “responded favorably” to the German request, citing the “humanitarian nature and motives” of the appeal. The regime’s decision comes after a year of diplomatic tensions with France over the writer’s detention.
Sansal, 80, has been imprisoned in Algeria since his arrest on November 16, 2024. He was sentenced on appeal in July to five years in prison for statements regarding Algeria’s territorial inheritance during the French c
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