Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-06-09-Speech-4-167"
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". – Mr President, I would like to congratulate the secretariat of the ALDE Group, to which I belong, for submitting the application so quickly and thus giving me the privilege of being the first to speak in this debate.
In Algeria, President Bouteflika’s Government continues, through judicial procedures lacking in any credibility, independence or justification, in its attempt to silence journalists who are considered by the governing regime to offend or attack the President or the government. In fact, these so-called attacks are no more than the ordinary independent criticisms by political journalists we see on a daily basis in all free democratic countries.
As a result of this war on the free press, numerous journalists are being dragged before the courts and many have been imprisoned or savagely fined. The list is long and the cases of the editor of the daily newspaper
Mr Fouad Boughanem, and the cartoonist, Mr Hakim Laâlam, who were sentenced by a court in Algiers to two months in prison and fined 250 000 dinars for defamation, are recent examples. As indeed is the case of publisher Mohammed Benchicou, already in prison for libel offences, whose transfer to hospital for much needed treatment – requested by the prison doctor – the courts have refused to approve, even on humanitarian grounds.
We call upon the Algerian Government to respect the principle of freedom of speech and to stop harassing journalists in an attempt to silence the voices of the democratisation process and the opposition press."@en1
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"Le soir d’Algérie"1
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