Politicians, writers and activists have called for the release of French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, whose arrest in Algeria is seen as the latest instance of the stifling of creative expression in the military-dominated North African country.

Multiple Nobel Prize-winning authors have signed a petition to demand the release of Algerian writer Boualem Sansal. View on euronews

French author Boualem Sansal upon his arrival at Algiers International Airport from Paris. At 75 years old, Sansal was detained by the Algerian General Directorate of Internal Security and is expected to face a prosecutor soon.