Algerian reporter got 13 months in prison for texting government opponent

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) notes that Mohamed Mouloudj, an Algerian journalist who spent 13 months in pre-trial detention on a terrorism charge for texting a government opponent, has finally been released after receiving a 12-month prison sentence from a court in the Algiers suburb Dar El Beida yesterday (18 October). The court also gave him an additional one-year suspended prison sentence.  

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