source: El Watan (Algeria)
actor1: Protesters (Algeria)
actor2: N/A
location: Tizi Ouzou
notes: On 5 June several people protested in Tizi Ouzou to call on the government to stop the unjust treatment of journalist Merzoug Touati who was imprisoned on grounds of having interviewed an Israeli diplomat. Berber people in the Kabylie believe that he was imprisoned because of his Berber origins.