abduction

Police have also repeatedly denied involvement in the abductions and killings.

Mr Sullivan's family and friends had made impassioned pleas for his safe return since his abduction.

They are accused of involvement in the abduction last year of Amir Boukhors, 41, a critic of Algeria's government with a large audience on social media, who was reportedly granted asylum in France in 2023.

Partway through the dizzying and appalling last two weeks of trade wars, courtroom battles, street abductions and social media posturing, these two Trump factotums wound up in a war of words.

Campaigners and opposition parties have since accused Hassan's government of an intensifying crackdown on political opponents, citing arrests and abductions of opposition members.