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In Algeria, the slow torture of El Watan daily

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At the entrance to the Tahar Jout Press House, named after a writer and journalist killed at the beginning of the “dark decade”, an off-duty policeman copies a visitor’s name into his register. The yard has fallen into silence, the signs are in disrepair, the building protected by high walls looks like a ghost ship. “The press left, it ended, everyone died one after the other.” says Rachid Bougasem, who has guarded the parking lot in his honor for twenty years. The guard of the “Lost City” has his own idea about the origin of the massacre. “It was this gentleman who killed them” he says, pointing to his cell phone.

Most of the editorial offices of daily newspapers are out of order. Except Young Independent, which has nothing young and independent but the title, andEl Watan, an endangered historical monument. Behind the old building of the Maison de la Presse, the jewel of the French-language Algerian press is well…

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