By President Ferhat Mehenni on X

Boualem Sansal will finally regain the freedom that was arbitrarily and scandalously confiscated to him, on November 16^th , 2024.

He was arrested for a crime of opinion that, in a democracy, would never have happened. Badly,  the Algerian generals have swiftly realized that there was no prison large enough to contain a man of his stature.

However, it was not necessary for Algiers to give in to French pressures that demanded its immediate and unconditional release. Boualem was the hostage of diplomatic tensions between the two countries. Justice, in a  dictatorship, is not an institution in the service of law, but an instrument against citizenship.

Even the release of Sansal by a presidential “grace” is a vain attempt by the military  to not lose face. Algeria, which has just spent 50 years of senseless war against Morocco in losses and profits by Polisario, suffers another setback with the release of our writer. This lays bare the state terrorism that is raging in this country and the arbitrary nature of the political repression to which its opponents, and particularly Kabylian activists, are subjected.

Kabylia expresses its relief for this liberation and salutes, through it, the victory of freedom over the dictatorship.

Sansal’s incarceration had the merit of shedding, for a while, a particular light on Kabylian political prisoners who, I hope, will continue to benefit from the attention of international public opinion so that in turn they will be released.

It is because there is no appeasement gesture in their favor and in the direction of Kabylia, it is because the MAK has no valid interlocutor among Algerian decision-makers that the date of Kabylia’s declaration of independence is set for December 14^th, 2025.

The peaceful Kabylian struggle continues.

Hurray for a free and independent Kabylia.