 However, with the civil war in the 1990s, more than 70 journalists were assassinated by Islamists.Sixty journalists were killed between 1993 and 1998 in Algeria.Recently, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has ordered several newspapers closures, imprisoned journalists such as Mohammad Benchicou, director of "Le Matin" and author of a critical biography of Bouteflika, and forced others reporters into exile, mostly in France.