An Algerian opposition figure jailed for two years for “insulting the president” is to be released Tuesday after his sentence was reduced on appeal, a prisoners’ rights group said. Fethi Ghares, coordinator of the small leftist Democratic and Social Movement, was arrested in June last year and sentenced in January to two years behind bars on charges that also included “spreading information that could harm national unity”. But an appeals court reduced the 47-year-old’s sentence to six months in jail plus a six-month suspended term, meaning “he will leave prison today”, the CNLD rights group sa…