- Organisation: Ennahar TV
- Case: Imprisonment
- Culprit: Bir Mourad Rais First Instance Court
- Country: Algeria
- City: Algiers
On November 15, the Bir Mourad Rais First Instance Court in Algiers sentenced Rahmani, director of the privately owned news broadcaster Ennahar TV, to five years in prison and fined him 100,000 Algeria dinars (US$778), after convicting him on a number of anti-state and defamation charges, according to a report by Ennahar TV and Mustapha Bendjama, a local press freedom advocate familiar with the case, who communicated with CPJ via messaging app.