The Maghreb lived on Saturday a day with demonstrations in Algiers in several cities in Morocco and Tunisia, where clashes between youths and security forces resulted in three dead and nine wounded hospitalized from the first, according to an Interior Ministry statement collected by the official news agency TAP.
Young people took to the streets in Tunis for the second consecutive day, on Friday, some 100,000 demonstrators gathered outside government headquarters, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Mohamed Ghanuchi, and his team, which feared that "hijacking revolution "that toppled Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.
Ghanuchi has pledged to hold general elections at the latest in July. To prevent recurrence of such incidents, police, backed by the army, took the unprecedented decision to prohibit access of vehicles and pedestrians at the Avenue Bourguiba, the main capital until Sunday night. In Morocco, it was in Casablanca where he met the greatest number of demonstrators.
About 1,200, according to independent sources, and about 4,000, according to organizers, who shouted "Justice, dignity, freedom!". There were also seated or marches in Rabat, Mohammedia, and Jemisent Imzuren. This Sunday has been called new protests, especially in the capital. Although the police presence was more visible than last weekend, the protests went off without incident despite not having been formally convened.
Moroccan Interior Minister, Taieb Cherkaoui, warned on Thursday that for concentrations in the street should be requested three days in advance and meet certain requirements that the organizers did not comply. The official news agency (MAP) ignored the protests last night in Morocco, but noted, however, on the front page of its website a rally on Friday by "the Moroccan Melilla", referring to Muslims, which was According to her, 2,000 people to demand "respect for their fundamental rights." In Algiers, for the third consecutive Saturday, a massive police deployment prevented the holding of a demonstration, but unlike the other two calls, only a hundred people attended the May 1 Square.
February 12 took between 2,000 and 5,000, according to sources. The coordinator that called the protests has been divided, and only a small party (RCD) strives to keep organizing. 
Young people took to the streets in Tunis for the second consecutive day, on Friday, some 100,000 demonstrators gathered outside government headquarters, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Mohamed Ghanuchi, and his team, which feared that "hijacking revolution "that toppled Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.
Ghanuchi has pledged to hold general elections at the latest in July. To prevent recurrence of such incidents, police, backed by the army, took the unprecedented decision to prohibit access of vehicles and pedestrians at the Avenue Bourguiba, the main capital until Sunday night. In Morocco, it was in Casablanca where he met the greatest number of demonstrators.
About 1,200, according to independent sources, and about 4,000, according to organizers, who shouted "Justice, dignity, freedom!". There were also seated or marches in Rabat, Mohammedia, and Jemisent Imzuren. This Sunday has been called new protests, especially in the capital. Although the police presence was more visible than last weekend, the protests went off without incident despite not having been formally convened.
Moroccan Interior Minister, Taieb Cherkaoui, warned on Thursday that for concentrations in the street should be requested three days in advance and meet certain requirements that the organizers did not comply. The official news agency (MAP) ignored the protests last night in Morocco, but noted, however, on the front page of its website a rally on Friday by "the Moroccan Melilla", referring to Muslims, which was According to her, 2,000 people to demand "respect for their fundamental rights." In Algiers, for the third consecutive Saturday, a massive police deployment prevented the holding of a demonstration, but unlike the other two calls, only a hundred people attended the May 1 Square.
February 12 took between 2,000 and 5,000, according to sources. The coordinator that called the protests has been divided, and only a small party (RCD) strives to keep organizing.
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