Mohammed Benchicou
Mohammed Benchicou | |
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محمد بنشيكو | |
 Mohamed Benchicou signing autographs in 2011 | |
| Born | 1 July 1952 Miliana, Aïn Defla Province, French Algeria |
| Died | 24 September 2026 (aged 74) France |
| Occupations | Journalist, activist |
| Known for | Le Matin newspaper, Bouteflika.. an Algerian Fraud |
Mohammed Boualem Benchicou (Arabic: محمد بوعلام بنشيكو; 1 July 1952 – 24 September 2026) was an Algerian journalist who was the director and publisher of Algerian newspaper Le Matin (English: the sunrise), closed in August 2006.[1]
Career
[edit]In 1989, he was one of the founders of the movement of Algerian journalists (MJA) a movement born during the opening of the media field. He then leads the team which relaunched Alger Républicain, banned from publication in 1965. Benchicou left Alger Républicain in 1991 with Saïd Mekbel and Fodil Mezali and founded the daily newspaper Le Matin of opposition.
In June 2004, he was sentenced to two years in prison for an infraction in money exchange regulation. In July, SIMPRAL, the Algiers-based government publisher, stopped printing Le Matin for its failure to pay a debt of 38 million dinars ($535,200)[2]
PEN (the international association of writers) describes the prison in which Benchicou was in as harsh and infested with lice and cockroaches; with 50 prisoners to a cell. Benchicou's health has reportedly deteriorated since his imprisonment which caused him to develop arthritis; consequently, he lost the ability to use his right hand for writing.[3]
Benchicou also published a book in 2004 called Bouteflika, an Algerian “fraud”, believed to be the source of all his juridic problems.[4][5]
Personal life and death
[edit]Mohamed Benchicou was the eldest of a family of seven children. He was married and father of three children, two girls and a boy. Benchicou died in France on 24 September 2026, at the age of 74.[6]
Awards and honors
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Bouteflika, une imposture algérienne (Bouteflika an Algerian "Fake"), Le Matin Editions - Picollec, 2004
- Les geôles d’Alger (Prisons of Algiers), Inas - Riveneuve, 2007
- Je pardonnerai, (I'll Forgive, Poems), Inas, 2008
- Journal d'un homme libre, (A Freeman's Diaries) Auteur-Riveneuve, 2008
- Notre ami Bouteflika, de l'état rêvé à l'état scélérat (Our Friend Bouteflika), Riveneuve, 2010
- Le mensonge de Dieu (God's Lie), Michalon, 2011
- Le dernier soir du dictateur (Last Night of a Dictator), Riveneuve, 2011
References
[edit]- ↑ On 23 August 2003, border police at Algiers airport searched Benchicou's baggage in his presence and found certificates issued by a bank in Algeria and valued at 11.7 million Algerian dinars (U.S.$127,000)
- ↑ "Report on Human Rights Practices for 2004 -Algeria". Jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
- ↑ "MOHAMMED BENCHICOU". pen.org. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
- ↑ "Mohamed Benchicou condamné - Afrik.com : l'actualité de l'Afrique noire et du Maghreb - Le quotidien panafricain". Afrik.com. 12 August 2004. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
- ↑ "Mohamed Benchicou : " L'Algérie est une bombe à retardement "". lepoint.fr. 1 June 2018.
- ↑ Web, Kamel Benelkadi, Rédaction (24 September 2026). "Décès du journaliste et écrivain Mohamed Benchicou". El Watan (in French). Retrieved 25 September 2026.
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