Overview
- An appeals court in Tizi Ouzou has confirmed a seven-year prison sentence for Christophe Gleizes on a charge of advocating terrorism.
- His Algerian and French lawyers say they are preparing to seek cassation, with the statutory eight-day window after the ruling closing within days.
- Algerian counsel Amirouche Bakouri met Gleizes at the Tizi Ouzou prison on Sunday and reported that the journalist appeared determined despite the verdict.
- Family representatives have scheduled high-level meetings in Paris at the Élysée and the Quai d’Orsay to press for political intervention.
- Unlike writer Boualem Sansal’s November release, Algerian authorities are handling this case more tightly, and a presidential pardon remains only a possible—yet uncertain—avenue.