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Algerian police briefly arrested a French author and her Algerian publisher along with others during a raid on her book event, the publisher told French news agency AFP on Sunday. Dominique Martre, author of “La Kabylie en partage” (“Shared Kabylia”), was arrested alongside her husband and the owner of the bookshop, said Arezki Ait-Larbi, director of the Koukou publishing house, who was himself detained. “The police stormed the bookstore at the start of the book presentation on Saturday afternoon and arrested everyone who was in the hall,” Ait-Larbi said. “We were taken to the police station b…

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