Ech-Chorouk El-Youmi

Ech Chorouk El Youmi (Arabic, aš-šurūqu-l-yawmi, "The Daily Dawn") is Algeria's second-largest daily Arabophone newspaper (after El Khabar), started in the 1990s.

The paper is independent, and often critical of the government, as well as strongly critical of the Islamist rebel movements which remain active after the Algerian Civil War. The paper also publishes "Ech Chorouk El Ousboui", a weekly supplement.

2006 Qadhafi affair

In a fall 2006 trial, the leader of neighbouring Libya, Muammar al-Qadhafi, took the unprecedented step of suing the paper in an Algerian court for defamation. The court decided on October 31 that Ech Chorouk's reporting of Qadhafi's attempts to induce Algerian Tuaregs to separatism had slandered the Libyan leader, and suspended the paper for two months. The editor and the responsible reporter were both sentenced to six months in jail. The verdict was condemned as a strike against press freedom by virtually the entire Algerian independent press and numerous political parties, as well as from international press watchdogs. [http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=19523]

See also

List of Algerian newspapers

External links

* [http://www.echoroukonline.com/ Ech Chorouk Online]