Sidi Mehamed criminal court pronounced yesterday the final verdict providing for the French “Le Figaro” and “Ouest France” correspondent Arezki Aït Larbi innocence after ten years of judiciary prosecution for slander charges after the | ... after ten years of judiciary prosecution for slander charges after the former director in charge of pain application at justice ministry Mr. Abdelkader Salat complaint... |
former director in charge of pain application at justice ministry Mr. Abdelkader Salat complaint after which he was sentenced to six months prison with no remission.
Arezki Aït Larbi case has been closed down yesterday after Sidi Mehamed criminal court verdict dismissed the case for no ground of evidence. The case remotes back to 1997, when former director in charge of pain application at justice ministry Mr. Abdelkader Salat lodged a complaint indicting Arezki Aït Larbi with slander after he published a write-up on “prisoner torture in the Algerian prisons” in a national weakly in 1995, as his article included testimonies of prisoners who experienced the worst forms of torture some of whom have been among last Wednesday’s hearing attendance in their capacity of witnesses.
On another side, Arezki Aït Larbi support commission aired a communiqué just after the verdict was pronounced in which it called justice minister to open an investigation on the issue which “tarnished justice system reputation as it dithered the decision about Arezki Aït Larbi case”, who unveiled to the public opinion abuses and inhuman practices to which are submitted prisoners in state jails, in addition to the incrimination of the “crime against humanity” revealed during the trial. |