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  • The trial began Monday of an Algerian journalist who has become a figurehead of press freedom in the North African country, an AFP journalist said. Khaled Drareni, 40, who ran the Casbah Tribune website and was a correspondent for French-language television channel TV5Monde, was arrested in March while covering an anti-government protest. He is accused of "inciting an unarmed gathering" and undermining the nation's "territorial integrity", charges he denies. He faces up to 10 years in prison if found guilty. Press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF), who Drareni also works for, has called for his immediate release and for the charges to be dropped. Drareni appeared on Monday in Algiers by video-link from prison, an AFP journalist in the courtroom said. Several Algerian and international human rights and media freedom groups have urged the government to release Drareni and end the harassment of independent media. Weekly protests by the "Hirak" movement rocked Algeria for more than a year, and only came to a halt in March due to the coronavirus crisis. Drareni is being tried alongside two members of the protest movement, Samir Benlarbi and Slimane Hamitouche. The two men, who unlike Drareni were released on bail in July, were present in court. Benlarbi said he was hopeful that Drareni would also be bailed. "The lawyers will demand his release from prison and the postponement of the trial until September," Benlarbi told AFP. Arrests of journalists in Algeria have increased in recent months. Algeria ranks 146th on RSF's 180-country World Press Freedom Index. rk-fa-ad/amb-agr/pjm/par
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  • Algeria journalist 'press freedom' trial opens
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