While I agree with the Algerian military in preventing an Islamic Fundamentalist takeover (it's one of my examples of situations in which democracy goes wrong), I definitely don't support many of their other actions. Lesser of two evils... -Allen
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PARIS (Sep 30, 1996 1:24 p.m. EDT) - A press freedom watchdog on Monday offered the suspended Algerian daily La Tribune a page on its Internet site to give it an airing during the six-month ban.
"Thanks to this initiative, these journalists, banned from writing by the Algerian authorities, will be able to practice their trade again," the Paris-based Reporters without Borders (RsF) said.
An Algiers court suspended La Tribune for six months on September 3 over a cartoon mocking the Algerian flag.
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Fifty-seven journalists have been murdered by suspected rebels. RsF said authorities had suspended or seized newspapers on 55 occasions and 23 journalists had been held for more than 48 hours since the conflict broke out over the 1992 cancellation of a general election fundamentalists were poised to win.
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