Algerian cartoonist Abdelhamid Amine, known as Nime, walked free less than a month into his prison sentence on the second day of 2020. He had been detained for his tongue-in-cheek drawings that had irked the authorities in the lead-up to the recent presidential election.
Nime was among 180 to 200 others detained for political reasons since the beginning of the hirak, the mass protest movement that took to the streets Feb. 22 in opposition to the fifth mandate of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and boycotted the December poll.
