French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal will not appeal his five-year prison sentence, sources close to the author said on Saturday. French Prime Minister François Bayrou has said he hoped Algeria would pardon the author, who was arrested in November for saying France had unfairly ceded Moroccan territory to Algeria during the colonial era.
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