British-Algerian journalist dies after hunger strike

Mohamed Tamalt, who was imprisoned after sharing poem about Algerian president on Facebook, dies in hospitalA British-Algerian journalist has died after staging a hunger strike in protest against a two-year jail term for offending Algeria’s president in a poem posted online, according to his lawyer.“I can confirm the death of the journalist Mohamed Tamalt in Bab el-Oued hospital after a hunger strike of more than three months and a three-month coma,” Amine Sidhoum said on Faceb