Missed It: Dilem’s Editor Sentenced

According to this longer piece on the recent convictions of journalists in Algeria that saw Ali Dilem charged with a fine equivalent to almost $1000 USD (50,000 Algerian Dinars), Dilem's editor (I'm guess that's what "director" means) Farid Alilat was sentenced to prison in absentia for publishing Dilem's cartoons. This continues what seems to be a worldwide trend towards using the courts to censure or punish the press for running cartoons that criticize government officials, incidents that would be depressing enough in isolation.

Unrelated Ali Dilem Cartoon.
 
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