“If this was a normal World Cup year, Christophe Gleizes would be busy. As a reporter specializing in African football, he would be reading, traveling, talking to people, checking in with sources and looking for offbeat stories around the tournament that he could bring to life in the pages of the Paris-based magazine So Foot. But for Gleizes, this World Cup year has been like no other. With the tournament looming, the 37-year-old Frenchman is languishing in an Algerian prison after being handed a seven-year jail sentence in June 2025 for ‘glorifying terrorism’ and ‘possessing propaganda publications harmful to the national interest’. …”
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Lens arranged a friendly against Rouen and donated funds from the game to the campaign for Gleizes’ freedom