Wednesday, February 9, 2011

In Algeria, prevents rally against Egyptian Embassy

Algerian police prevented the holding of a merger with the Egyptian Embassy in Algiers convened by the so-called National Coordinator for Democracy and Change (NCDC) in support of the Egyptian people and to demand the ouster of Hosni Mubarak. Dozens of uniformed police officers were deployed around the Egyptian Embassy and prevented access to the public all streets leading to it.

The officers attempted to disperse equally to any group of more than three or four people who approached the vicinity of the embassy, located in the residential district of Hydra in the capital. Finally, about two dozen protesters were able to concentrate on a sidewalk of a street nearby, displaying placards and shouting slogans against Mubarak's regime and in support of Egyptian demonstrators.

Closely watched in the street by dozens of police, the protesters went after a few minutes of the slogans against the Egyptian head of state slogans against the regime and the Algerian president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The CNDC, which has called Saturday's demonstration in the capital and other cities to demand a change in Algeria, is composed of some opposition parties and several civil society organizations such as the Algerian League for the Defence of Rights Human (LADDH).

Fodil Bumala, a spokesman for the NCDC, said the protest held today to "support the Tunisian and Egyptian people in their struggle against dictatorship" and to "liberate the people of Algerian old regime, mortal, unconstitutional and illegal, that has no connection with society. " "We want to recover our society and our country and to release a second time to Algeria to a totalitarian regime whose practices are similar to the colonial" he said.

Saturday's march in Algiers has been outlawed by the provincial government in the capital, though organizers have stressed that maintaining the call. In the social networking sites have multiplied in recent days calls to attend the march in the capital demanding the lifting of restrictions on freedom and a change in regime.

On January 22 the opposition party Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD) attempted to organize a demonstration in the capital with similar claims but that protest was thwarted by police who blocked all access to the location provided its inception.

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