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Algeria upholds five-year jail sentence for writer Boualem Sansal

An Algerian court on Tuesday upheld a five-year jail sentence for French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal who was arrested in November for saying in an interview that France had unfairly ceded Moroccan territory to Algeria during the colonial era.

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