Macron urges Algeria to free writer jailed for Morocco comments

French President Emmanuel Macron has called on Algeria to release Boualem Sansal, an 80-year-old writer sentenced to five years in prison for undermining Algeria's territorial integrity, Reuters reports. Sansal, detained last year after comments on colonial land distributions, has received widespread support, including from Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka and novelist Salman Rushdie. Macron seeks humanitarian intervention from Algerian authorities for Sansal, who has also been hospitalized during his detention.