Mohamed Benchicou

Mohamed Benchicou (rear RTL محمدبنشيكو) is a Journaliste and writer Algérie N born in 1952 with Miliana (Western of Algeria). He is laid off in Economic scenes Université of Algiers. He purged a two years of prison sorrow, officially for a business of vouchers cash. Mohamed Benchicou was released in June 2006 but its passport was still not restored to him and its newspaper the Morning remains always suspended by the Algerian authorities. In February 2004, it had been the wrong to publish in Algeria and France a biography of the Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika “Bouteflika; an Algerian imposture” denouncing the corruption of the mode.

Family

Mohamed Benchicou is the elder one of a modest family (father hairdresser and mother with the hearth) of 7 children. He is married and father of three children, two girls and a son.

Course

Little before 1972: It is corresponding to Algiers of the daily newspaper El Djoumhouria appearing with Oran (western of Algeria) where it took its first steps at the sports column.
1972: It creates and animates a review of the direction of the social affairs of the state enterprise Sonatrach " The canard" intended for the workers of this company.
1975 : Journalist of the sports column of Algérie Presses Service (APS)
1976: journalist with the weekly magazine “Algeria topicality”.
1977 : Joined the daily newspaper “El Moudjahid” or it directs the economic heading. It selected to resign about it when the direction requires of him to choose between its station or to withdraw its signature of a petition addressed to the ministry for information denouncing the ashamed treatment of the events, riots and violent repression - of Kabylie by the press in April 1980. The independent press did not exist then.
1980-1982 It carries out its military service when it is sent with a great number of called in the town of El Asnam (to 500 km in the west of Algiers) touched hard by a seism to take part in the helps and then in the rebuilding of the city. There remains 15 month there.
1982-1989: With the support of his colleagues journalists, It forces the direction of El Moudjahid to respect the law by reinstating it in the newspaper. Its national presence with the service had been indeed seen like the unhoped-for occasion to transfer it to the ministry for information.
1989: With the opening of the media field to the creation of independent newspapers, it belongs to a team which starts again Algiers Républicain prohibited of publication in 1965 a newspaper which counts among its founders Henri Alleg (writer and militant of the independence of Algeria during French colonization).
June 1991: It leaves Algiers Républicain, with a large majority of the drafting following divergences with the direction, to found the independent Algerian daily newspaper the Morning in which it regularly writes report, leading articles and comments in addition to one weekly chronicle. Mohamed Benchicou is known for his frankness and his freedom of tone. He is known not to have spared any government and even less that currently places from there.
February 2004: Benchicou publishes in Algeria and France a biography, a critical book on the Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika Abdelaziz Bouteflika “Bouteflika; an Algerian imposture”.

After having purged a 2 years sorrow of imprisonment on complaint of the ministry for Finances for “ infringement governing the exchange control and the movements of the capital ”, after the discovery of vouchers cash in his luggage with the Airport of Algiers, in August 2003, the director of the Morning was released on June 14th, 2006 of the prison of El Harrach with Algiers. The daily newspaper the Morning is suspended since July 2004. In October 2007, with the living room of the book in Algiers its book " jails of alger" was withdrawn from the counter for officially administrative reasons.

External bonds

the blog of Mohamed Benchicou
the Newspaper of Mohamed benchicou
Chronic of Benchicou appeared in the Morning
http://www.libererbenchicou.com
of Benchicou

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