Ammar Belhimer

Ammar Belhimer (in عمار بلحيمر) (born 4 May 1955 in El Aouana, Jijel Province) is an Algerian public law teacher and journalist, who became Minister of Communication and spokesperson for the first Djerad government on 4 January 2020. then from the first Benabderrahmane government from January 4, 2020 to November 11, 2021. He is the founder of four newspapers, and has experience as a reporter and columnist. After a degree in public law at the University of Algiers in 1978, Ammar Belhimer continued his studies at the Paris Descartes University, where after a DEA obtained in 1984 he became a Doctor of Law in December 1997, with a thesis entitled "Political and legal analysis of Algerian external debt management strategies from 1986 to the present day". From 1975 to 1990, Belhimer was a journalist with the State daily El Moudjahid and one of the activists of the Movement of Algerian Journalists (1988-1990). In 1980, he was banned from activity for six months by the second Abdelghani government for having written an article reporting the sentencing of an army captain to a prison term for corruption. After the Hamrouche law of 1990 authorized the creation of a private press, he successively founded several newspapers: the weekly La Semaine d'Algérie (April 1991/February 1992); In April 1992, he founded the daily newspaper La Nation, of which he was director and editor-in-chief. Its editorial line was to allow a resumption of dialogue between some of the main political movements of the country, the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), the Socialist Forces Front (FFS) and the National Liberation Front (FLN); the term "terrorism", usually applied to the action of the FIS, is replaced by that of "armed action", reflecting a form of dissent from government policy. At the time of the assassination of Mohamed Boudiaf in June 1992, the newspaper ran the headline "Une seul piste: la mafia politico-financier" ("One track: The politico-financial mafia"), a headline that was taken up by the international press.