Overview
- Gleizes was arrested while reporting on the Jeunesse sportive de Kabylie and has been serving a seven‑year sentence for “apologie du terrorisme” after his June 2025 conviction.
- His lawyers say judicial routes are closed after he withdrew his cassation appeal and the prosecutor’s cassation was rejected on 3 June, leaving a presidential grace as the only legal path to freedom.
- Reporters sans frontières and Gleizes’ parents held a press conference calling on the French government to act quickly and warned that the approaching French election could give Algeria leverage over the case.
- Family members who visited in the past ten days say Gleizes is “strong and solid,” is held with two co‑detainees, and that recent high‑profile support from Zinédine Zidane has raised his standing and morale inside the prison.
- To keep public pressure alive, RSF and a support committee have planned a solidarity football match in Paris on 11 November to mark about 500 days of detention and the City of Paris recently granted him honorary citizenship.