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Police stand outside a polling station during the presidential election in Algiers, Algeria, on September 7, 2024. |Photo: Reuters\/Ramzi Boudina|<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Algerian authorities sentenced a journalist to one year in prison and fined 100,000 dinars ($752) on Sunday 6 October on charges of insulting a state institution and its employees, according to a local reporter who spoke to the Committee to Protect Journalist (CPJ) on condition of anonymity, citing safety concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CPJ called on the Algerian authorities to release the Djelfa Tribune editor-in-chief, Badreddine Guermat<\/a>, and should not contest if he chooses to appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are alarmed by an Algerian court\u2019s decision to convict and sentence journalist Badreddine Guermat to one year in prison for simply doing his job,\u201d said CPJ Interim MENA Program Coordinator Yeganeh Rezaian, from Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAlgerian authorities must release Guermat, should not contest his appeal, and stop harassing journalists for reporting the news.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guermat was arrested<\/a> on September 25 from his home in Djelfa, a city south of Algiers, following a Facebook post<\/a>alleging government mismanagement of funds. The Djelfa Tribune is a local news website that covers local politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CPJ\u2019s email to the Algerian Ministry of Interior requesting comment about Guermat\u2019s conviction did not receive any response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The arrests occur amid an apparent aim to silence criticism ahead of and after the September 7 presidential elections in what rights groups are calling an \u201cerosion of human rights<\/a>\u201d under President Abdelmadjid Tebboune\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time of CPJ\u2019s most recent annual prison census on December 1, 2023, three journalists were imprisoned in Algeria<\/a>. Journalist Mustapha Bendjama<\/a> was released<\/a> in April 2024. In addition to Guermat, authorities have since arrested at least two other local journalists: Omar Ferhat and Sofiane Ghirous<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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