Media freedom and freedom of expression in Algeria, the case of journalist Ihsane El-Kadi

Reference RC-B9-0242/2023

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S&D143

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Greens/EFA72

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The European Parliament adopted by 536 votes to 4, with 18 abstentions, a resolution on media freedom and freedom of expression in Algeria – the case of journalist Ihsane El-Kadi.The text adopted in plenary was tabled by the EPP, S&D, Greens/EFA and ECR groups.Since the 2019 Hirak protests, Algeria’s authorities have substantially clamped down on media freedom and freedom of expression. Ihsane El-Kadi, a prominent Algerian journalist and manager of Interface Médias, one of the last independent media enterprises in Algeria, with the online outlets Radio M and Maghreb Emergent, was arrested without a warrant on 23 ‑ 24 December 2022.On 2 April 2023, an Algerian court sentenced El-Kadi to five years’ imprisonment, of which two suspended, a…