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Omar Belhouchet (born 9 February 1954 in Sétif〔) is an Algerian journalist who has been prosecuted by his government on numerous occasions. He publishes the daily newspaper ''El Watan'' (English: "The Nation"), which he founded in 1990 after he and nineteen colleagues left the FLN government-owned newspaper ''El Moudjahid'' (English: "The Holy Warrior"). ==Journalism== After receiving a degree in economics from the University of Algiers, Belhouchet went to work for Algérie Presse Service and then ''El Moudjahid''. In 1990, he left the paper to found the independent ''El Watan''.〔 In an interview with the Committee to Protect Journalists, he estimated that between 1993 and 1997, he faced thirty legal actions initiated by Algerian officials, sometimes requiring him to appear in court two or three times a week.〔 He reports being threatened by Islamic militants more than 100 times,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Omar Belhouchet, Chief Editor of El Watan – Algeria )〕 and according to the ''New York Times'', has "narrowly escaped" two assassination attempts. One of these attempts occurred in 1993, when an assailant fired a machine gun at his car while he was driving his children to school;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Omar Belhouchet )〕 Belhouchet escaped by dropping low in the seat and gunning the accelerator. Islamist militants were suspected to be responsible.〔 In 1997, ''El Watan'' published an investigation into the suffocation death of 32 prisoners during the tenure of Justice Minister Muhammad Adami; Adami resigned several weeks after the article's publication.〔 In November of that year, Belhouchet was convicted of "harming state institutions" and sentenced to one year in prison for a 1995 remark he made to French television stations Canal+ and TF1: "There are journalists that embarrass the authorities. I would not be surprised if tomorrow I found out that some of my colleagues were murdered by men in power."〔 In 2006, Belhouchet protested the banning of the ''Pop Idol''-like show ''Star Academy'' from Algerian television in the face of Islamist protest, stating, "Today, they ban television shows. Tomorrow they will brain-wash the population, in the name of Islam." Belhouchet lost a defamation suit in 2008 to a faith healer that he and ''El Watan'' reporter Salima Tlemçani had alleged to be a fraud; both were imprisoned for three months.〔 The International Federation of Journalists issued a press release protesting the conviction as "another attempt by the powerful to silence investigative journalism by means of judicial interference". In 2009, Reporters Without Borders issued a protest on Belhouchet's behalf after judicial police reportedly summoned him for interrogation on defamation charges fourteen times in the space of a few weeks. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Omar Belhouchet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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