This is a phrase repeated time and again by every journalist I meet. However, the regime is a constant obstacle. They treat us like spies. Hundreds of box files at El Watan and other journals represent a detailed analytical and historical record of Algeria's recent, complex, and bloody history. Yet he admits the government controls all the printing presses having closed down the only independent press last year and the vast majority of advertising, thus giving it huge power over the newspapers.
Many papers still face numerous civil suits launched by the government.
Extraordinary persistence has helped Saihi Horria complete several documentaries on rape in Algeria. She now lives with the knowledge that she is a prime target for fundamentalists who claim the death of one woman journalist is worth that of 10 men. Without a doubt, one of the first names on the Islamists' death lists is Saihi Horria. A leading documentary filmmaker, Saihi has done more than anything to heighten women's issues and explode the myths propagated by the extremists. She also made an explosive program about a woman who escaped from the main Islamic group, having been kidnapped, tortured, and gang-raped by the terrorists.