The verdict fell into the Mohamed Lamine Belghit case, tried in the court of Dar El Beïda on June 26 for national unity. Belghit received a heavy prison sentence.
The trial was held a week ago before the Dar El Beïda (Algiers) court. The prosecution had requested a sentence of 7 years in prison, with 700,000 fine dinars.
Algeria: Mohamed Lamine Belghit received 5 years in prison
The court of Dar El Beïda returned its verdict this Thursday, July 3. Mohamed Lamine Belghit is sentenced to 5 years in prison and a fine of 500,000 dinars.
The respondent was arrested on May 3 after controversial comments on national identity made at the end of April. On the Emirati Sky News Arabia channel, he had argued that Amazighity, one of the constants of national identity according to the Algerian Constitution, is a ” Franco-Zionist creation ».
He also compared the Algerians established abroad to the harkis. These words aroused indignation in Algeria. Several political, cultural and historical figures, as well as that of the High Commission for Amazighity condemned the words of this historian with controversial positions on many subjects.
Presented to justice, Mohamed Lamine Belghit was placed in pre -trial detention on Saturday May 3. In a statement released the same day, the public prosecutor’s office at the Dar El Beïda court said the defendant is prosecuted for ” Acts targeting national unity by attacking the symbols of the Nation and the Republic, involved in national unity and dissemination of a speech of hatred and discrimination through information and communication technologies ».
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