Algerian Cartoonist Faces Jail Time

Ali Dilem's crime? Insulting President Abdelaziz Bouteflika with up to eight cartoons for the paper Liberte. The prosecutor in charge announced his intention to seek jail terms for Dilem and two other journalists on May 10 National groups looking after the rights of journalists are hoping to have the charges dismissed before judgment, expected on May 24. The formal charge is criminal defamation.

Dilem was in the news in 2002 and 2003 for a story whereby Algerian lawmakers seemed to be amending statutes solely in order to fine him. I'm not finding any of his work up at his site right now.
 
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