Karim Tabbou, a key figure in anti-government protests last year, was given a one-year suspended sentence on Monday.
Algeria and Italy have agreed to develop their economic and commercial cooperation.
Only the Casbah Tribune, founded in 2017 by jailed journalist Khaled Drareni, remained inaccessible without a VPN.
Wednesday's death brings to five the number of Algerian soldiers killed in Islamist attacks since the start of the year.
The army killed "two terrorists following a clash with a dangerous" armed group in Jijel province, the ministry said in an initial statement, later revising the toll to three.
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune is to return home within days after a month of hospitalisation in Germany with coronavirus.
The 47-year-old is charged with "damaging the morale of the army".
Only Tunisia has made the transition during the Arab Spring, with the other popular uprisings ending in repression, war or chaos.
Few of the pro-democracy protesters who took the Middle East by storm in 2011 had a flag to raise or leader to follow. But all had a song to sing.
Abdelmadjid Tebboune's health situation is fuelling uncertainty about the future of Algeria.