An Algerian political leader has been told by a court that he would remain imprisoned pending further questioning, his son said. Ali Belhadj, the former number two in the banned Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), was arrested on 27 July after an Aljazeera television interview where he supported the resistance to the US-led forces in Iraq. "An investigating judge questioned Ali Belhadj and ordered him back to prison," Abdelkader Moghni, a former FIS leader, said. Belhadj's son Abdelfattah added: "The authorities has returned my father back to jail to complete the questioning." Algeria's General Prosecutor Kaddour Beradja said Belhadj faced charges of "praising acts of terrorism, inciting murder and distributing subversive leaflets". Belhadj told Aljazeera in a telephone interview: "I congratulate the mujahidin fighting in Iraq and ask God to help them in the face of occupiers and their allies, especially that the sharia says that allies of occupiers face the same fate as occupiers themselves." Belhadj also expressed his opinion regarding the killing of two Algerian diplomats in Iraq, for which, according to a website, al-Qaida had claimed responsibility. Al-Qaida regards Algeria's government as infidel and said in a web-statement: "We won't forget what Algeria did to Muslims, by killings, destruction and spilling their blood."