France – France 24, Dec. 15, 2025
The mother of jailed French journalist Christophe Gleizes has appealed to Algeria’s president for a pardon, calling his seven-year sentence “incomprehensible”. Arrested in May 2024 while reporting in Kabylia, Gleizes maintains he is innocent, and his case comes at a time of mounting tension between France and Algeria.
The mother of jailed French journalist Christophe Gleizes wrote a letter to Algeria‘s president requesting he pardon her son from his seven-year sentence on terror-related charges.
Gleizes, a sportswriter, was convicted of “glorifying terrorism” in June.
“I respectfully ask you to consider granting Christophe a pardon, so that he may regain his freedom and his family,” Sylvie Godard wrote in the letter, which was dated December 10 and seen by AFP on Monday.
Gleizes’s lawyers are also seeking a new trialwith the country’s highest court.
Gleizes was arrested in May 2024 while travelling to northeastern Algeria’s Kabylia region to write about the country’s most decorated football club, Jeunesse Sportive de Kabylie.
