An Algerian court on Tuesday sentenced French-Algerian activist Amira Bouraoui to 10 years in prison, media reported, in a case that sparked a diplomatic row between the two countries. Advertising Read moreBouraoui, who fled to France through Tunisia in February, was sentenced in absentia for an "illegal exit from the territory", one of the defence lawyers told Algerian media. The court in the northeastern city of Constantine also sentenced Ali Takaida, a border police agent, to three years in prison. Bouraoui's 71-year-old mother, Khadidja -- whose passport the activist used to cross the border to Tunisia -- was also handed a one-year suspended sentence. Algiers deemed her flight to France an "illegal exfiltration", sparking a diplomatic dispute with Paris that has since been resolved.
