Algerian journalists face jail for Gaddafi articles

Two journalists have been jailed for six months in Algeria for libelling the Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi who sued them through his country's Algiers embassy. Ali Fodil, who runs the daily newspaper Ech-Chorouk, and a writer, Naila Berrahal, were also each fined 20,000 dinars (£140). The court action centred on two articles in August that claimed Gaddafi had planned to "divide the Tuaregs... and destabilise Algeria." The sentences have been suspended pending an appeal. (Via Middle East online)