Overview

• The support committee launched by RSF includes over 100 figures, among them Catherine Deneuve and Hervé Renard, backing Gleizes’s immediate release.
• More than 17,100 people have signed RSF’s petition demanding the journalist’s freedom.
• Family members and colleagues staged a “Journalism Is Not a Crime” march at the Festival d’Avignon to raise public awareness.
• Gleizes, 36, was sentenced on June 29 to seven years for “apologie du terrorisme” and propaganda after contacts with a leader of Algeria’s Kabyle autonomy movement.
• His legal team has filed an appeal and is awaiting a retrial while diplomatic ties between France and Algeria remain strained.