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| 2006-04-03 |
| Instructing magistrate at the court of Sidi M'hamed, Algiers, has ordered journalist of El Khabar Mourad M'hamed to be placed under judicial control. He is accused of "publication of information likely to harm national interest". Mourad M'hamed was heard by the prosecuting attorney before he appeared in front of the instructing magistrate yesterday morning. Mourad M'hamed left the court along with with the editor of El Khabar, M. Ali Djerri, and the newspaper's lawyer Khaled Bourayou at 6:00 p.m., after the instructing magistrate ordered the provisional detention the two policemen, indicted in the same case, and the journalist's friend, accused of contributing the information in question. Mourad M'hamed has already been held, for long hours, at Algiers Central police station to force him to reveal the sources of his information published in El Khabar daily, concerning the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) which called on the terrorists released within the framework of national reconciliation, to join the organization. The journalist's appearance before the prosecuting attorney took place without the defendant's lawyer. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |