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| − | ALGIERS, May 25 (Reuters) - An Algerian blogger arrested last year over social media posts has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on espionage and other charges, a human rights activist said on Friday.<br><br>Charges against the blogger, Merzoug Touati, included "incitement for taking up arms against the state" and "encouraging crowd gathering", said Said Salhi, a member of the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights.<br><br>They also included espionage "with foreign agents, in particular from Israel, with the goal of tarnishing Algeria's diplomatic position", Salhi said.<br><br>Touati was arrested in January 2017 after he published a Facebook message and a video on YouTube on accounts that were later deleted.<br><br>One post called for protests against a 2017 finance law, while the video included an interview with an Israeli foreign ministry spokesman who denied accusations by the Algerian authorities that Israel was behind anti-government protests in Algeria at the time.<br><br>Amnesty International said it had reviewed court documents that list the posts as evidence against Touati and that it had found "no incitement to violence or advocacy of hatred".<br><br>"Rather, his posts were covered by freedom of expression in relation to his work as a citizen-journalist," the rights group said in a statement.<br><br> | + | ALGIERS, May 25 (Reuters) - An Algerian blogger arrested last year over social media posts has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on espionage and other charges, a human rights activist said on Friday.<br><br>In case you have just about any queries about exactly where and also the way to use [http://www.mediamax.sk/reklamne-plochy/node/816928 hosting murah], you possibly can e-mail us from our site. Charges against the blogger, Merzoug Touati, included "incitement for taking up arms against the state" and "encouraging crowd gathering", said Said Salhi, a member of the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights.<br><br>They also included espionage "with foreign agents, in particular from Israel, with the goal of tarnishing Algeria's diplomatic position", Salhi said.<br><br>Touati was arrested in January 2017 after he published a Facebook message and a video on YouTube on accounts that were later deleted.<br><br>One post called for protests against a 2017 finance law, while the video included an interview with an Israeli foreign ministry spokesman who denied accusations by the Algerian authorities that Israel was behind anti-government protests in Algeria at the time.<br><br>Amnesty International said it had reviewed court documents that list the posts as evidence against Touati and that it had found "no incitement to violence or advocacy of hatred".<br><br>"Rather, his posts were covered by freedom of expression in relation to his work as a citizen-journalist," the rights group said in a statement.<br><br>Touati was sentenced on Thursday by a court in Bejaia, east of the capital Algiers.<br><br>He has 10 days to appeal the verdict, according to Algerian law.<br><br>(Reporting by Lamine Chikhi Editing by Aidan Lewis and Gareth Jones)<br><br>Advertisement |
