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And he is now prepared to continue the fight, like he said in front of journalists when he joined the Press House Tahar Djaout in the mid day. The next fight of Benchicou is to face 29 lawsuits filed against him, plus the fight of the re-launch of the newspaper, as he puts it. Benchicou considers the return of Le Matin to its readers is a pure political issue, adding if the authorities left its burden like tax services, justice and police... we will return soon”. Meanwhile, the small number of copies that has been issued as a special edition which was printed yesterday was disappeared amongst people gathered in the press house. On the front page of this edition that wasn’t distributed to the public held a photo of Benchicou under headline reading “free and in good health”, and this is the expression that the start of the Press House has started his speech with. He said “don’t be afraid of their prisons”. Benchicou called the international and the national opinion to “the solidarity with the national press because it is in the heart of the battle for freedom of expression”. The director of Le Matin continued expressing his impressions while leaving the prison that he unfairly entered, and he thinks that the authority has lost the battle, calling it to step back from its decisions towards the press and individual liberties in general” In a long message to the international and national public opinion, Benchicou mentioned the circumstances in which Benchicou has spent the time in Al Harrach prison, amongst them” I have been denied all correspondences sent to me in the prison, and I have been denied the special medical treatment, and I have stood 44 times in front of the investigation judge to be questioned about articles published by Le Matin, and I have spent days and nights in cells in the basement in a very cold atmosphere and filthy conditions...”. Mohammed Benchicou has gone immediately after his release to Freedom Space in Hassiba Bounbouali Street, where he has put a wreath of flowers as tribute to the terrorism-victim journalists, who are more than 100, and their names are on a list hanging in the place that was given by Sidi M’hamed municipality to the media profession organisations. M. Iouanoughane — El-Khabar | ||||||||||||||||||
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Benchicou : Don’t be afraid of their prisons