Algeria arrests leading journalist Khaled Drareni
By REUTERS MARCH 28, 2020 13:02
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ALGIERS - Algerian police arrested Khaled Drareni, a leading journalist, on Friday evening and plans to charge him on Saturday with "attacking the integrity of the national territory", Reporters Without Borders, a press freedom group, said.
Drareni was covering protests which shook Algeria for most of last year, forcing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to resign in April 2019, before they were suspended over the coronavirus.The justice ministry has not released a statement.
Drareni's arrest comes days after the jailing of another prominent opposition leader, Karim Tabou.