source: Local Source
actor1: Protesters (Mauritania)
actor2: N/A
location: Nouakchott
notes: On 9 August, Mauritanian journalists staged a protest outside a police station in Nouakchott where two journalists, Babacar N'Diaye (editor in chief of Cridem) and Mahmoud Ouled Saibout (Taqadoumy) were kept after having been arrested over an article about the lawyer Gamal Ould Mohamed.