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Algeria sentences journalist to 8 months in jail
Algerian journalist Rabah Kareche, who reported on a protest movement by the Tuareg minority, was sentenced Thursday to serve eight months behind bars, his newspaper Liberte said. It said a court in the southern town of Tamanrasset handed Kareche, who was arrested in April, a one-year term with four months suspended. Taking into account time served, he has four months left in prison. He had been charged with "spreading false information liable to damage public order" and was accused of posting reports that could trigger "segregation and hatred within society". Rights group Amnesty International denounced the sentence as a new blow to freedom of the press in Algeria, a

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