Middle East Focus: Algeria, the President, the Peasants, the Impossible Insult……..

Arabia Deserta

Algeria, the President, the Peasants, the Impossible Insult……..

“Algeria’s dictator Bouteflika is suing two people for “insulting the president”. One man is a farmer who was overheard to complain that “president Bouteflika makes promises and vows to which he is not committed and dos not execute them” (an unwise public complaint in any Arab country). The local (rat) who was the water official reported it to a judge who ordered the man’s arrest. A second provincial man is being tried on a similar charge because he addressed a letter to the president complaining about application of justice…....…The articles of law criminalizing an insult to the president was instituted in 2001, earlier in Bouteflika’s presidency….....….”

The dictator of Algeria, don’t worry about the rigged elections, he is a dictator, feels insulted. I didn’t realize one could insult an Arab dictator, no matter how hard one tried.
Good thing the materbyet has no Facebook or Twitter account: many people will go to jail.
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