{"id":38063,"date":"2025-07-02T09:01:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/07\/02\/horrific-ailing-author-sansal-caught-up-in-ever-escalating-franco-algerian-diplomatic-fallout\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T09:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:01:39","slug":"horrific-ailing-author-sansal-caught-up-in-ever-escalating-franco-algerian-diplomatic-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/07\/02\/horrific-ailing-author-sansal-caught-up-in-ever-escalating-franco-algerian-diplomatic-fallout\/","title":{"rendered":"&lsquo;Horrific&rsquo;: Ailing author Sansal &lsquo;caught up&rsquo; in ever-escalating Franco-Algerian diplomatic fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>An Algerian court has upheld the five-year prison sentence of French-Algerian author Boualem Sansal, rejecting prosecutors\u2019 appeal for a harsher 10-year term. Sansal, author of 2084: The End of the World, was convicted in March under Algeria\u2019s anti-terrorism laws for \u201cundermining national unity.\u201d The case has sparked alarm over free expression and heightened tensions with France. It\u2019s turned Sansal into an unlikely cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre, drawing support from francophone writers to far-right politicians.For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective, FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Fran\u00e7ois Picard welcomes Dr. Todd Shepard, Author and Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History at Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Algerian court has upheld the five-year prison sentence of French-Algerian author Boualem Sansal, rejecting prosecutors\u2019 appeal for a harsher 10-year term. Sansal, author of 2084: The End of the World, was convicted in March under Algeria\u2019s anti-terrorism laws for \u201cundermining national unity.\u201d The case has sparked alarm over free expression and heightened tensions with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-38063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}