Mohamed Tamalt

11, Mohamed Tamalt, a British-Algerian journalist, died in Algerian custody. Arrested in June after posting verses about Algeria's president on Facebook, Mr. Tamalt was charged with “offending the president” and “defaming public authority,” and sentenced to two years in prison. In protest, he went on a ...

TUNIS — The Algerian government is coming under criticism for its treatment of a freelance British-Algerian journalist, Mohamed Tamalt, who died in a hospital on Sunday after being imprisoned under a draconian new law that criminalizes offending the president and state institutions. Mr. Tamalt, 42, was ...

Mohamed Tamalt was convicted in an Algerian court of "defaming a public authority" and "offending" Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in a poem he posted on Facebook. "I can confirm the death of the journalist Mohamed Tamalt in Bab el-Oued hospital after a hunger strike of more than three months ...

(Beirut,) – An Algiers appeals court on August 9, 2016, upheld a two-year prison sentence for a journalist who posted a video on Facebook featuring a poem deemed offensive to Algeria's president, Human Rights Watch said today. Mohamed Tamalt has been in prison since his arrest on June 27, and is ...