Protesters, police clash in Algerian capital

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

Algiers, Algeria (CNN) -- Tensions erupted in another restive North African nation as security forces in Algeria on Saturday clashed with anti-government protesters chanting "change the power."

Police detained about 100 protesters in the nation's capital of Algiers, according to the Algerian League for Human Rights. The league is one of the main opposition groups that organized the rallies -- unauthorized gatherings that came a day after embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down.

The demonstrations were mostly peaceful, with police rounding up protesters in small groups to break up the crowds, and anti-riot police gathered at the scene.

Khalil AbdulMouminm, the general secretary for the Algerian league, called the situation "very tense on the ground" and said police were preventing protesters from assembling, with authorities blocking all entrances to the capital.

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/12/algeria.protest/?hpt=Sbin

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And on we go...

[ananda]

1. Imagine 30,000 riot police against 10,000 protesters.

I just don't know where this one is going to go.

[Joanne98]

2. Aljazeera has a live blog going

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/12/live-blog-feb-12-eye-algeria

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Thank you JoAnne

:hi:

[Joanne98]

3. Algeria: Protesters Clash With Riot Police

Source: Sky News

Hundreds of protesters including four MPs have been arrested in Algeria's capital following clashes with police, according to reports in Algiers.

Organisers of the anti-government demonstrations say several thousand people gathered for a demonstration in Algiers.

Many campaigners have been injured in the rally in the city centre with around 20 people being admitted to hospital.

Under the country's long-standing state of emergency, protests are banned in the capital but people have taken to the streets to demand democratic change and jobs in an Egypt-inspired protest.



Read more: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Algeria-Protesters-Clash-With-Riot-Police-in-Algiers-In-Egypt-Inspired-Demonstration/Article/201102215929121?lpos=World_News_Top_Stories_Header_4&lid=ARTICLE_15929121_Algeria%3A_Protesters_Clash_With_Riot_P

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Video at link

[oberliner]

4. Algeria police stifle Egypt-inspired protest

Source: MSNBC

ALGIERS — Thousands of police in riot gear blocked off the center of Algeria's capital on Saturday and stopped government opponents from staging a protest march that sought to emulate Egypt's popular revolt .

Small groups of demonstrators angry at President Abdelaziz Bouteflika gathered in May 1 Square in the center of Algiers shouting "Bouteflika out!" They waved newspaper front pages reporting Friday's overthrow of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak.

But riot police hemmed them in, stopping them from carrying out a plan to march through the city. Other protesters trying to reach the square found their way blocked and at least one of the protest organizers was arrested.

"It is a state of siege," said Abdeslam Ali Rachedi, a university lecturer and government opponent.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41545522/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

[MineralMan]

5. Small groups cannot pull these things off. Only a mass protest,

in numbers that far exceed the numbers of the police or other forces can make it work.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. It is spreading

good...

ACHOOO!

No, that is a healthy cold