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Algeria: United Nations independent experts pressuring Algeria to release wrongly jailed journalistF

A journalist jailed for his coverage of mass protests in Algeria must be released, United Nations independent experts said on Wednesday. Khaled Drareni was jailed for two years on Tuesday as a crackdown on dissent intensifies after a year of anti-government...
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Companies: Series of blunders result in millions of dollars of losses to Algeria oil firm Sonatrach ($)F

After the disastrous oil leaks last week that took place on one of its pipelines in El-Oued and the problems that prompted a halt in activity in the LNG facilities in Skikda and Arzew on 7 September, Sonatrach experienced an explosion that reportedly damaged a large...
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Algeria: Government-controlled court sentences journalist Drareni to two years in prisonF

Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni was jailed for two years on appeal Tuesday, a defence lawyer said, in a case seen as a barometer of press freedom in the North African country.  Drareni, 40, has been in custody since March and was sentenced in August to three years...
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The Algerian regime does it again: it blocks Internet access for the whole country to secure a pointless high-school examF

Algerians were unable to access social media accounts on Sunday as students sat national exams in the North African country where authorities are cracking down on cheating. Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp were inaccessible, an AFP journalist...
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