An Algerian businessman and activist imprisoned for urging a boycott of the country’s 2019 presidential election was released on Wednesday, a rights group said, after he announced this month he would quit politics. Rachid Nekkaz was released on “humanitarian grounds”, the National Committee for the Liberation of Detainees said on Facebook. Algerian daily Le Soir d’Algerie reported the 51-year-old had been granted a presidential pardon. Nekkaz had unsuccessfully tried to stand as a candidate in the 2019 poll. In a letter from prison published on his Facebook page on January 2, Nekkaz said he ha…