An Algerian court has sentenced an 80-year-old writer to five years in prison after accusing him of undermining the country's territorial integrity.
Boualem Sansal was arrested last year after saying in an interview with a far-right French media outlet that, during the colonial era, France gave too much land to Algeria and too little to Morocco.
He had also said that the disputed territory of Western Sahara was historically part of Morocco.
During his detention the French-Algerian author has spent time in hospital for ill-health.