Politicians, writers and activists have called for the release of French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, whose arrest in Algeria is seen as the latest instance of the stifling of creative expression in the military-dominated North African country.

Multiple Nobel Prize-winning authors have signed a petition to demand the release of Algerian writer Boualem Sansal. View on euronews

Four Nobel Prize in Literature-winners, as well as eminent authors including Salman Rushdie, Giuliano da Empoli and Boris Cyrulnik, have called for the immediate release of Franco-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal,