ALGIERS, March 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, who has been ensnared in an unprecedented diplomatic crisis between Algiers and Paris, was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison for undermining Algeria's territorial integrity, an AFP journalist reported.

Sansal was arrested in November at Algiers airport after saying in an interview with a far-right French media outlet that France unfairly ceded Moroccan territory to Algeria during the colonial era.