Arbitrary detention of Algerian journalist Ihsane El Kadi
Timeline
July 5, 2024: El Kadi's sentence is reduced from five to three years' imprisonment.
October 12, 2023: The Supreme Court rejects Ihsane El Kadi's appeal in cassation and confirms the 7-year prison sentence.
June 18, 2023: Ihsane El Kadi's sentence is increased on appeal to 7 years in prison, including 2 years on probation.
April 2, 2023: The Sidi M’Hamed court in Algiers sentences Ihsane El Kadi to 5 years in prison, including 2 years on probation.
January 17, 2023: MENA Rights Group requests the intervention of an international individual-complaint mechanism.
January 15, 2023: The indictment division of the Algiers Court decides to keep El Kadi in pre-trial detention.
January 2, 2023: El Kadi's lawyers apply for provisional release.
December 29, 2022: El Kadi is prosecuted under articles 95, 95 bis and 96 of the Criminal Code, relating to the receipt of funds from abroad, and placed in pre-trial detention.
December 25, 2022: El Kadi’s sentence concerning the proceedings initiated by the former Minister of Communication is upheld on appeal ; the headquarters of Interface Médias are searched and sealed.
December 24, 2022: El Kadi is arrested.
November 17, 2022: The various terrorism charges against El Kadi are dropped.
June 7, 2022: El Kadi is sentenced by the Sidi M'Hamed court in Algiers to six months' imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 Dinars in the proceedings initiated by the former Minister of Communication, Amar Belhimer.
March 20, 2022: The investigative judge at the Larbâa Nath Irathen court informs El Kadi that he is being prosecuted for “membership of a terrorist group”.
February 24, 2022: El Kadi's name is mentioned in the case file of Algerian activist Zaki Hannache when the latter is presented before the investigating judge of the Sidi M'hamed court and charged with, among other things, “apology for terrorism”, “receiving funds from an institution inside or outside the country” and “undermining state security”, and placed in provisional detention.
February 18, 2022: Human rights defender Zakaria (“Zaki”) Hannache is arrested.
June 10, 2021: El Kadi is arrested and interrogated at length in the Antar barracks.
Late March 2021: The former Minister of Communication, Amar Belhimer, files a complaint against El Kadi following the publication of an opinion piece on Radio M on March 23, 2021.