France’s prime minister called on Algeria to pardon an imprisoned dissident writer on Tuesday after an Algerian court upheld his five-year prison sentence.

What happened: On Tuesday, an Algerian court upheld the five-year prison sentence for writer Boualem Sansal, a dual French-Algerian citizen jailed in Algeria since November. Sansal was sentenced in March for undermining national unity after he told the right-wing French news outlet Frontieres that France had unjustly transferred Moroccan territory to Algeria during the French colonial era in North Africa. Sansal was arrested last November, according to Agence France-Presse. 

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou told reporters on Tuesday that Algeria........

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