France, June 29 -- 37-year-old Gleizes, who contributes to the magazines So Foot and Society, was sentenced on 29 June 2025 to seven years in prison for "glorifying terrorism".

He had been arrested in May 2024 while working on a report about Jeunesse Sportive de Kabylie - better known as JSK - one of Algeria's most prominent football clubs.

Reporters Without Borders, known by its French acronym RSF, said on Monday that the anniversary should serve as a renewed appeal to Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune.

"It has been a year since Christophe Gleizes was unjustly detained," said Thibaut Bruttin, RSF's director-general, in a statement. RSF heads the support committee set up for the journalist.

Bruttin said Gleizes should have been ...