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Algeria: protest

Around 200 people ate together at a public lunch in the town of Tizi Ouzou on August 3 to protest against the ‘persecution of non-fasters and creeping Islamisation’ in the Kabylie region in northern Algeria.

Another picnic was held simultaneously in the town of Aokas in the neighbouring Béjaïa province, which attracted over 100 people. In Algeria, where Islam is the state religion, breaking the Ramadan fast in public is punishable by fine and imprisonment.