The court releases Le Figaro correspondent from Algeria

The case to be considered next 2nd May

The court releases Le Figaro correspondent from Algeria

El Khabar, 29 April 2007

Sidi Mehamed magistrate’s court released yesterday the French daily Le Figaro correspondent Arezki Aït-Larbi, to be tried May 2nd in Algiers court.
The journalist has been arrested Thursday by security services in Algiers international airport to be led to the general prosecutor in El Harrach court in order to be heard.
The defence requested to revoke the warrant of arrest, the fact contested by the general prosecuted but the court decided to release him.
According to the lawyer Miloud Brahimi, the “journalist reference to the general prosecutor in El Harrach court is owed to the territorial competence”, but the striking is that it coincides with the eave of the celebration of freedom of press international day.
Arezki Aït-Larbi published a communiqué in which he explained that the case which remotes back to 1994 has deprived him from the freedom of movement and have been noticed recently about the sentence namely six months imprisonment with no remission. The think is about a case related to one of his press write-ups in a national daily but the warrant of arrest has not been issued till 1997.

2007-04-29
By F. Z / Translated by N. K