Saïd Bouteflika

Saïd Bouteflika (Arabic: سعيد بوتفليقة; Berber languages: ⵙⵄⵉⴷ ⴰⵠⵓⵜⴼⵉⵇⴰ; born January 1958) is an Algerian politician and academic. He is the brother and was a special adviser of Abdelaziz Bouteflika in his former role as President of Algeria, on whom he would have had "considerable influence", especially after the president suffered a serious stroke in 2013. He was also an assistant professor at the University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB).

On 4 May 2019, a month after his brother's resignation, in the context of the protests in Algeria, he was arrested and provisionally imprisoned in the military prison of Blida awaiting trial. On 25 September 2019, he was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for “undermining the authority of the army” and “conspiring against the authority of the state”. He remains imprisoned for corruption in the Haddad and Louh cases, but also for the financing of the electoral campaign for his brother's fifth presidential term, a case for which he was sentenced to eight years in prison in June 2022.