CConfirmed by an Algerian press agency, the arrest of the Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal has sparked international mobilization. Annie Ernaux, Jean-Marie Le Clezio, Orhan Pamuk and Wole Soyinka, Nobel Prize winner for literature, as well as Salman Rushdie, Peter Sloterdijk, Andreï Kourkov, Roberto Saviano, Giuliano da Empoli and Alaa el Aswany join our call for solidarity , launched by Prix Goncourt Kamel Daoud, and demand his immediate release.
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To the defenders of freedom
Today I speak to you with deep concern. My friend, the Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, was arrested on Saturday November 16. This tragic news reflects an alarming reality in Algeria, where freedom of expression is nothing more than a memory in the face of repression, imprisonment and the surveillance of the entire society.
From now on, everything is possible: life imprisonment for a text message, prison for a sigh of annoyance. Sansal looks like an old biblical prophet, smiling. It provokes passions and friendships as much as the hatred of submissive and jealous people. He is free and amused by life. He writes books about the storms and abstract lights of our time, and he enjoys the hatred of others. Sansal writes, he does not kill or imprison anyone. His innocence in the face of the dictatorship made him forget the reality of the Terror in Algeria for several years. He neglected to look at the pack waiting for him, he returned to visit his country that Saturday. He paid dearly for it.
Boualem Sansal, known for his courage and commitment, has always been a critical voice against oppression, injustice and Islamist totalitarianism. In Algeria, writers and intellectuals, publishers, booksellers, live in fear of reprisals, accusations of espionage and arbitrary arrests, trials and defamation and violent media attacks on their staff and their loved ones. A real editorial terrorism is targeting them. The last Algiers Book Fair took place under strict police surveillance and searches to remove certain books.
We cannot remain silent. Freedom, the right to culture and our lives, writers targeted by this terror, are at stake.
I am launching an urgent appeal for international solidarity:
Let us demand the immediate release of Boualem Sansal and all writers imprisoned for their ideas.
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Let us commit to defending them, supporting them.
First signatories
Annie Ernaux (Nobel Prize for Literature), Jean-Marie Le Clezio (Nobel Prize for Literature), Orhan Pamuk (Nobel Prize for Literature), Wole Soyinka (Nobel Prize for Literature), Salman Rushdie, Peter Sloterdijk, Andreï Kourkov, Roberto Saviano, Alaa el Aswany, Sylvain Tesson, Pascal Ory, Leïla Slimani, Élisabeth Badinter, Bernard-Henri Levy, Caroline Fourest, Boris Cyrulnik, Philippe Claudel, Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Jean-Christophe Rufin, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Abnousse Shalmani, Alain Finkielkraut, Catherine Cusset, Pascal Bruckner, Cynthia Fleury, Alain Mabanckou, Joann Sfar, Franz-Olivier Giesbert, Christophe Ono-dit-Biot, Peggy Sastre, François-Guillaume Lorrain, Émilie Frèche.
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