The Algerian journalist and director and founder of the Radio M and Maghreb Émergent electronic sites, Ihsane El Kadi, was arrested on Friday (December 23rd) in Zemmouri (east of Algiers) by the Algerian security services.
December 25, 2022 at 11:37 a.m.
Modified December 25, 2022 at 11:37 am
The Algerian journalist and director and founder of the Radio M and Maghreb Émergent electronic sites, Ihsane El Kadi, was arrested on Friday (December 23rd) in Zemmouri (east of Algiers) by the Algerian security services.
“Six plainclothes agents came to the journalist’s secondary residence in Zemmouri (Boumerdes) and asked him to follow them,” Radio M reported, quoting Ihsane El Kadi’s family.
The headquarters of Interface Médias, the publishing company of the two titles, located in Algiers-center, was raided on Saturday followingnoon by the security services, noted the same source, reporting the seizure of computer and filming equipment. .
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Ihsane El Kadi was sentenced at first instance last June to six months in prison, following a complaint by the former Algerian Minister of Communication, Ammar Belhimer, because of an article published on Radio M. On December 18, during his appeal to the Court of Algiers, the prosecution requested the aggravation of the sentence.
In a press release, the Board of Directors of Radio M denounced the “unjustified harassment that our media platform has suffered for three years, which has no basis other than that of preventing the free exercise of the profession of informing”.
(With MAP)
December 25, 2022 at 11:37 a.m.
Modified December 25, 2022 at 11:37 am
