![]() But after two years of experience with closed doors, they limited the rule to clubs in the capital, and in the end only the very popular team Muludia Club d'Alger (MCA) will play without spectators. To this end, they have also decreed that matches be played without spectators in order to limit the capacity of the stadiums. As they are not unaware of their unpopularity and know very well that the peaceful popular revolt of 22 February 2019, called Hirak, came out of the football stadiums and that their presence there is not welcome, they suppressed the competition. Because it is an occasion and an obligation for the President of the Republic, the members of the government and the senior army officers to attend the final of this competition and greet the 22 protagonists by presenting the trophy to the winner. For three years now, the Algerian football cup competition has been abolished. ![]() While it has managed to tame the press by monopolising the advertising manna, which is essentially state-owned, and by forcing private sector advertisers, both domestic and foreign, to spread their advertising messages only in the media, while repressing the few voices that are still free in Algeria, it has not managed to strangle the stadiums and mosques. It has a phobia of three things: the press, football stadiums and mosques. Is the authorities afraid of the free press? Lately, arrests and prosecutions of journalists have multiplied. All sentences and decisions are handed down by telephone. ![]() In Algeria, we call the judicial apparatus "justice by telephone". For my part, I limited myself to disseminating screenshots of Sofiane Nezzar's Facebook page. He was punished by his father for having spread the photo of his mother on his Facebook account denouncing his father for having killed his wife with two shots in the head in 1993. Sofiane never filed a complaint against me. The complaint was officially lodged by General Nezzar's son, Sofiane Nezzar, who, by the way, was committed by his father to a psychiatric hospital, although he is actually in his right mind. One example: the sentence handed down against me by the Chreraga court in February 2021 for "having divulged confidential information about retired General Khaled Nezzar and his family". ![]() What we have is simply a judicial apparatus that serves to carry out the orders given to it by those in power. Is the judiciary really independent in Algeria?įirst of all, the judiciary should really exist. In the text of the condemnation addressed to the YouTube administration, it is said that I disseminate through this portal "terrorist ideas" and that I call for "a popular uprising to destabilise public security in Algeria". Well, the latest conviction actually has the main objective of shutting down my YouTube portal, which has more than 622,000 subscribers and is followed all over the world. Is this the same objective of this latest conviction? In other words, the Algerian political-military regime is sparing no means to ask for my extradition and to silence me. May I remind you that I am listed as a "terrorist" in the Official Journal of the Algerian Republic, in issue 11 of 13 February 2022, along with a good number of political activists. The latest ones are all related to the accusation of terrorism with the aim of getting international arrest warrants against me accepted, and they amount to seven. Not counting those handed down between 19, I count a total of 77 years in prison from 2013 to the recent conviction that has just taken place. This is not my first conviction by the Algerian courts with the sole aim of silencing me. At a time when the European Parliament has adopted a resolution on the shortcomings of press freedom and the repression of journalists in Algeria, Atalayar wanted to know the opinion of Aboud himself.Ī court in Algiers has just sentenced you to 10 years in prison and issued an international arrest warrant for "threatening the security of the state" and "public order" without providing any credible evidence. A political exile in France, Hichem Aboud is a former officer in the Algerian army and now a leading journalist.
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