- Organisation: France 24
- Case: Detention
- Culprit: Algerian Authorities
- Country: Algeria
- City: Algeris
The journalist was detained after responding to a summons issued by a judge at the Bir Mourad Raïs Court, outside of Algiers, which accused the journalist of receiving foreign funding aiming to harm national interest and collaborating with a foreign television channel without accreditation. He Was held in the Harrach prison in Algiers for one night before he was released without charge on July 29, according to news reports. His release is classified as temporary, pending an investigation, according to those reports.