An Algerian court on Monday confirmed on appeal the two-year prison sentence of activist Amira Bouraoui who was being prosecuted in particular for "
insulting
" Islam, said an association helping prisoners of conscience. "
The verdict fell (...) in the appeal trial of Amira Bouraoui: confirmation of the verdict pronounced at first instance,
" reported the National Committee for the Liberation of Detainees (CNLD) on its Facebook page. The 45-year-old gynecologist, mother of two teenagers, was accused in a first case of "
attacking the precepts of Islam and the prophet
", after the publication, on her Facebook page, of publications deemed "
offensive to the prophet
".
The offending publications have since been deleted.
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Amira Bouraoui was also tried on appeal, in a second case, for "
contempt of an official in the exercise of his functions, attack on the person of the President of the Republic and dissemination of information likely to attack public order.
“, Still according to the CNLD.
The Court of Tipaza, west of Algiers, sentenced Amira Bouraoui to two years in prison in each of the two cases without placing her under a committal warrant, the association said.
The two penalties are not cumulative.
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Known figure of the opposition of the era of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who died in September, Amira Bouraoui became known in 2014 as one of the leaders of the Barakat movement ("That's enough!", Editor's note), which opposed the The former president's fourth term. She then actively took part in the popular Hirak protest movement that erupted in February 2019 and culminated in Bouteflika's forced resignation in early April 2019. More than 200 people are currently imprisoned in Algeria in link with the protest and / or individual freedoms Many of the lawsuits based on Facebook posts criticizing the authorities, according to the CNLD.
