ORIENT XXI.31.12.2022
« Solidarity with Algerian media Radio M and Maghreb Emergent » titles L’orient XXI
The network of independent media on the Arab world protests against the sealing of the two Algerian media and calls for the release of journalist Ihsane El Kadi. These sources of information are essential and must continue their activities, » reads the article, which cites a press release issued on December 30 by journalists and employees of Radio M and Maghreb Emergent to denounce the arrest of their Director Ihsane El Kadi and the sealing of their premises.
« This final attack completes a series of bans and arrests over the past three years against journalists of this editorial pole that has largely covered the popular protests of the Hirak in 2019, » said L’Orient XXI, which echoes the Statement of the journalists and employees still in shock following the nightly arrest of the journalist by agents of the military police, « outside the legal framework and a five-day police custody without the person concerned being heard, nor informed of the charges against him, » said the text.
« An iniquitous decision and an abusive use of pre-trial detention, which is similar to a proven desire to permanently silence the last free space of the Algerian press » denounce the Algerian journalists.
Nawaat.30.12.2022
It is important that solidarity between journalists is expressed in the region and in the world because in Algeria very few have been able to do so because of the climate of terror that they are subjected to in the absence of independent structures that defend freedom of expression, argues Samir Bouaaziz of Reporter Without Borders to the Tunisian newspaper.
The arrest of El Kadi Ihsane is a very bad signal and an alarming indicator of the situation of freedom in Algeria, a message to other journalists supports the journalist Najla-ben-salah.
El Qods El Arabi,30.12.2022
223 political prisoners in February 2022, the sad, approximate and unofficial count of El Ods Al Arabi.
From London, the newspaper quotes the New York Times largely explicit in its article the day before devoted to Algeria following the detention warrant of El Kadi Ihsane and the closure of the two media he was managing.
« It is not possible to accurately define the number of people imprisoned in the absence of independent reports in Algeria. El Qods El Arabi gives the floor to Dalia Ghanem,
the specialist on Algeria, author of the book « Understanding the Persistence of Competitive Authoritarianism in Algeria ».
The power wants to turn the page of the Hirak according to the writer, convinced that there will be less and less freedom in all areas.
The Middle East newspaper recalls the accusations made against El Kadi Ihsane and draws a parallel with Egypt. « The military power associates foreign funding of human rights organizations and non-profit NGOs with foreign interference and terrorism, » comments the journalist.
Opera NEWS.28th.12.2022
In his editorial, journalist Jean-Marcel Bouguereau writes that « The authoritarianism of the power has just manifested itself again with the arrest of one of the most renowned journalists in Algeria, Insane El Kadi. Even though in 2019 the Hirak, the peaceful popular uprising, caused the fall of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the « protest movement » continued with the new authorities, just as corrupt as the previous ones, so much so that oil manna is a system of government…
