#Algeria grants bail to #blogger jailed over “insulting” cartoons
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A young Algerian blogger, jailed since September for posting cartoons on the Internet #mocking the #President, has been granted bail ahead of his trial, his lawyer said on Thursday. Abdelghani Aloui “was freed on bail on Wednesday by the indictment division of the court of Sidi M’Hamed in Algiers,” Amine Sidhoum told AFP. The trial date has not yet been fixed. Aloui, 24, faces several charges, including “attacking the person of the president” and “contempt”, for publishing cartoons on his Facebook page ridiculing #Bouteflika and then prime minister Abdelmalek Sellal. read more