source: Sahara Media
actor1: Protesters (Mauritania)
actor2: N/A
location: Nouakchott
notes: Mauritanian journalists have held a sit in in their offices in Nouakchott to demand the release by the Egyptian authorities of their fellow journalist Mahmoud Hussein who worked for al-Jazeera. On the same day, the parliamentary Palestinian support group organised a protest in front of the US embassy in Nouakchott to denounce the recent decision of the US to recognize Jerusalem as Israels capital and move it's embassy there.