Algeria

June 2005 | Risk Summary

In the latest in a series of defamation convictions against journalists, which suggest that the government is trying to silence dissent in the independent press through the courts, on May 24, Farid Alilat, former editor of daily newspaper Liberté, was sentenced to a year in prison for an editorial and two articles that were judged defamatory to the president. Leading cartoonist Ali Dilem was also fined DZD50,000 (US$686). This appears to be part of a wider strategy to silence critical voices in the media, with the government unlikely to relinquish state control of radio and television. However, this route will

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