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  • Algeria asks all foreign correspondents to leave the country

    07/03/2003 7:33:57 PM PDT · by HAL9000 · 1 replies · 260+ views
    BBC ^ | Thursday, 3 July, 2003 | Mohamed Arezki Himeur
    Algeria bars foreign press The Algerian authorities have asked all foreign correspondents to leave the country. Even journalists who went to the country purely to cover the release on Wednesday of the founders of the Islamic Salvation Front - FIS - have been asked to leave. The order was given on Thursday morning by an official of the Algerian ministry of communication and culture. Some of the journalists have left the country already, but others are preparing to leave by Thursday's afternoon. In the meantime, they have been restricted to their hotels and banned from covering events linked to...