RSF calls for release of French reporter Christophe Gleizes, detained in Algeria
After being detained for almost 500 days in Algeria, Christophe Gleizes is no closer to being freed.
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- FRANCE 24's Mark Owen speaks with Thibault Bruttin, Director General of Reporters Without Borders.
Those close to him, as well as his fellow sports journalists have campaigned tirelessly for his release with the affair even attracting the attention of Zinedine Zidane, manager of the French football team.
He says that Gleizes has probably become "a token in a diplomatic game that we don't totally understand, that we don't totally master, up to the point where we are asking ourselves 'has he become a state hostage?'".
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