Algerian diplomat suspected in murder is freed
A ranking Algerian diplomat suspected in the 1987 murder of a dissident in Paris is free to go home, three months after Algeria called him a hostage of France.Mohammed Ziane Hasseni, protocol chief for Algeria's Foreign Ministry, arrested in August, has been under judicial supervision and barred from leaving France.The case has strained ties between France and Algeria, a former colony.
Tunisia has freed all of its 800 political prisoners in terms of an amnesty granted after the fall president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in popular uprising, a lawyer told AFP Wednesday.