ALGIERS — Algerian
authorities have arrested a journalist from a local French-language newspaper
and searched his house, a rights group and one of his colleagues said Monday.
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"Mohamed Mouloudj, journalist
at the Liberte daily, was arrested on Sunday and his house searched," the
Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LADDH) said on Facebook.
"He is still in custody in
Algiers."
Mouloudj's newspaper, where he has
worked for a decade, did not immediately comment, but one of his colleagues
confirmed the arrest.
"He had already had run-ins
with the security services, who took away his passport for months," Ali
Boukhlef said.
"He had also been taken in
for questioning several times."
Another Algerian journalist,
Hassan Bouras, was arrested a week ago and formally placed in preventive
detention on Sunday, accused of "glorifying terrorism" among other
crimes, his lawyers said.
Algeria is ranked 146th out of 180
countries and territories on the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press
Freedom Index.
According to prisoners' rights
group CNLD, around 200 people are in jail in connection with the Hirak
pro-democracy protest movement that has shaken the North African country
sporadically since 2019, or over individual freedoms.
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