- Echorouk
Infobox Newspaper
name =
caption = Typical "Echorouk" front page
type = Dailynewspaper
format = tabloid
ceased publication =
price = DA10 (Saturday-Thursday)
€1.00 (Europe)
foundation =1991
owners =Ech-chorouk Information
language = Arabic
political =Centre-Left
circulation = 240,000 (May 2006 - May 2007)
headquarters = Maison de la presse Abdelkader Safir, Kouba ,algiers
editor =Nasr Eddine KACEM
website = [http://www.echoroukonline.com/ Ech-chorouk El-youmi Unlimited]Echrouk in
Arabic بالعربيةجريدة الشروق اليومي or Ech Chorouk El Youmi (Arabic , aš-šurūqu-l-yawmi, "The Daily Dawn") It is a daily newspaper inAlgeria published Saturday to Thursday in thetabloid format. It is the second-largest dailyArabophone newspaper (afterEl Khabar ), started in 1991.The paper is independent, and often critical of the government, as well as strongly critical of the
Islamist rebel movements which remain active after theAlgerian 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-Gaddafi , 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 AlgerianTuareg s toseparatism 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]External links
* [http://www.echoroukonline.com The Official website] .
* [http://www.echoroukonline.com/english/ The English edition] .
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