For this 60e independence anniversary, El Watan opted for a black and white flashback. An image of July 5, 1962, the moment that marked the definitive break with one hundred and thirty-two years of colonization, including eight years of war between the Algerian revolutionaries and the French army. This chapter ended with a self-determination referendum which won 99.72% of votes in favor.
“On this occasion and as expected, the President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, decreed presidential pardon measures”, reports All About Algeria (TSA). An ordinary pardon was decreed in favor of 14,910 detainees sentenced for minor offences, as well as an exceptional pardon for prisoners sentenced to death and life imprisonment and detainees who passed their school exams, who were granted reduced sentences. or had their sentence commuted.
Among them, detainees from Hirak, this popular movement that