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  • NameMohamed Tadjadit
  • RolePoet and activist in the Hirak movement; shared critical poetry and political commentary on social media
  • CountryAlgeria
  • Arrested16 Jan 2025
  • StatusImprisoned (serving sentence)
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Known as the "poet of the Hirak," Mohamed Tadjadit has been arrested at least eight times since 2019. In January 2025, aged 32, he was sentenced to five years in prison, cut to one year on appeal, for Facebook and TikTok posts, including poems critical of government policy. In a second case, an appeal court sentenced him in January 2026 to three years, one of them suspended.

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