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ALGIERS: The appeal trial of a French sports journalist jailed in Algeria on accusations of “glorifying terrorism” has been scheduled for December 3, his lawyer said Friday.
A contributor to the magazines So Foot and Society, Christophe Gleizes, 36, was sentenced in late June to seven years in prison.
“The case of French journalist Christophe Gleizes is scheduled for December 3, 2025, at the criminal appeal court in Tizi Ouzou,” 110 kilometers (70 miles) east of Algiers, his lawyer, Amirouche Bakouri, said on Facebook.
Gleizes had traveled to Tizi Ouzou to write about the local football club Jeunesse Sportive de Kabylie, named after Algeria’s Kabylia region, home to the Amazigh Kabyle people.
He is accused by the judiciary of having been in contact with a local football figure prominent in the Movement for the Self-Determination of Kabylie (MAK), designated a terrorist organization by the authorities in 2021.
The press freedom NGO Reporters Without Borders called on the appeal court to free Gleizes.
“Christophe is guilty only of practicing his profession as a sports journalist and loving Algerian football,” declared RSF Director-General Thierry Bruttin, according to an NGO statement.

TUNIS: The Tunisian Association of Democratic Women rights group said authorities had suspended its activities, in a move denounced by fellow activists.
Founded in 1989, the ATFD has been at the forefront of the struggle for democracy in Tunisia and against the dictatorship of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who was overthrown in 2011 by a popular uprising.
The head of the ATFD, Raja Dahmani, told AFP on Friday that she received a “decision from the authorities ordering the suspension of its activities for one month” because it had violated regulations governing associations.
Vowing to take legal action, Dahmani said the association “fully complies with legal procedures.”
Fellow rights group the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES) expressed its solidarity with the association on Saturday.
“This decision is part of an ongoing series of measures aimed at criminalizing independent civic action and further restricting civic space in Tunisia, affecting dozens of independent associations,” it said.
Feminist campaigner and law professor Sana Ben Achour also condemned the decision on Facebook.
Since President Kais Saied seized power in a coup in 2021, Tunisian and foreign NGOs have denounced a regression in rights and freedoms in the country.
Local media reported this week that prosecutors had launched an investigation into foreign funding received by various civil society organizations, including the FTDES, I Watch, Al-Bawsala and the media outlet Inkyfada.
The Business News website said that 47 associations had been dissolved as a result of the investigation and authorities had frozen the assets of 36 others.