{"id":3185,"date":"2025-11-12T14:24:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T14:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jeune-independant.net\/en\/?p=3185"},"modified":"2025-11-14T21:06:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:06:05","slug":"boualem-sansal-pardoned-and-transferred-to-germany-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jeune-independant.net\/en\/2025\/11\/12\/boualem-sansal-pardoned-and-transferred-to-germany-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Boualem Sansal pardoned and transferred to Germany (Presidency)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The writer Boualem Sansal, imprisoned in Kolea prison since November 2024 for undermining the territorial integrity of the country, was pardoned by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and transferred to Germany following a request from his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the presidency announced this Wednesday in a statement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn 10 November 2025, the President of the Republic, Mr Abdelmadjid Tebboune, received a request from Mr Frank-Walter Steinmeier, President of the Federal Republic of Germany, seeking clemency for Boualem Sansal.<\/p>\n<p>The President of the Republic responded favourably to this request, which caught his attention due to its nature and humanitarian grounds,\u201d the presidency\u2019s statement indicated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn application of Article 91, paragraph 8, of the Constitution and after legal consultation, the President of the Republic decided to grant a favourable response to the request of His Excellency the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, a friendly country,\u201d the text specified, adding that \u201cthe German state will take charge of the transfer and treatment\u201d of Boualem Sansal.<\/p>\n<p>Frank-Walter Steinmeier requested from President Tebboune \u201cthe clemency of Boualem Sansal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the German head of state, \u201csuch a gesture would be an expression of a humanitarian spirit and great political insight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis initiative reflects not only the long-standing personal ties with President Tebboune but also the quality of relations between Germany and Algeria,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>It should be recalled that the Algiers Court confirmed on 1 July the five-year prison sentence handed down against the writer Boualem Sansal, initially decided on 27 March by the Dar El Be\u00efda court.<\/p>\n<p>Suffering from prostate cancer, Sansal, 75, was transferred on Tuesday morning to the city of Berlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The writer Boualem Sansal, imprisoned in Kolea prison since November 2024 for undermining the territorial integrity of the country, was pardoned by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and transferred to Germany following a request from his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the presidency announced this Wednesday in a statement. \u201cOn 10 November 2025, the President of the Republic, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-3185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-domestic","tag-boualem-sansal"],"byline":"S. Ould Brahim","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeune-independant.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeune-independant.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeune-independant.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeune-independant.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeune-independant.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeune-independant.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3191,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeune-independant.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions\/3191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeune-independant.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeune-independant.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeune-independant.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeune-independant.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}