Committee to Protect Journalists: Algerian Journalist Merzoug Touati Arrested Over Protest Coverage
June 18, 2020
June 18, 2020
NEW YORK, June 18 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following news:
Algerian authorities must immediately release journalist Merzoug Touati and drop all charges against him, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
On June 12, Algerian police arrested Touati, a reporter for the news website L'Avant-Garde, while he was covering anti-government protests in the city of Bejaia, according to journalist and press freedom advocate Mustapha Bendjama, wh . . .
Algerian authorities must immediately release journalist Merzoug Touati and drop all charges against him, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
On June 12, Algerian police arrested Touati, a reporter for the news website L'Avant-Garde, while he was covering anti-government protests in the city of Bejaia, according to journalist and press freedom advocate Mustapha Bendjama, wh . . .