If the Syrian opposition today to try to give the final push to the Assad regime, even the government of Algeria Abdelaziz Bouteflika appears to navigate increasingly turbulent waters. Faced with ongoing demonstrations by students and government workers returned to announce democratic reforms. But it might not be enough opposition to civil and does not want to settle for a few small concessions.
Meanwhile, the square does not stop, and the events organized every week the police continue to respond with their batons. On April 23, police dispersed two protests in the capital: one of several hundred employees in front of the school's National People's Assembly demanded wage increases and those organized by the National Coordination for Change and Democracy (CNCD) a few miles away .
On the ground, according to witnesses, would have been dozens of injuries. The same scenario was repeated two days ago before the presidential palace in Algiers, when hundreds of Physicians, on strike since March 7, took to the streets. On the Facebook page of the Collective of Physicians graced the few pictures of the clashes escaped the control of the police, who arrested many doctors phones and beat several journalists.
According Marouane Sid Ali, spokesman for the Collective, at least "ten physicians were injured by police, while others have been arrested and no one knows" if yet been released. " If the numbers of events are still far from those in Tahrir Square led to the fall of the Mubarak regime, the government seems more and more worried.
President Bouteflika, in fact, already in mid-April after he did not speak in public for three months, officially announced a period of reform to avert the worst. At the end of the council of ministers on Wednesday, then did more. He announced a road map for reform, indicating areas for action: the electoral law, the reform of the field of information and journalism in a country where television is public and therefore in the hands of the government.
Bouteflika has also made it clear that the difficult task will be to drive Abdelkader Bensalah, president of the upper house of parliament and likely successor to the president in the upcoming elections. What is unclear is what will be the "national personality" with which the regime has announced plans to talk about the reforms.
That is, what role would the civil society organizations, the real star of the Arab Spring. What is certain is that the opposition movement will not stand by and watch: the CCD, in fact, anticipated the words of Bouteflika on Wednesday, April 23 and already has put pen to paper claims shared "with the other forces of democratic change" .
His recipe for the new course provides an Algerian National Transitional Council is composed of persons engaged in the democratic struggle whose work must be completed within a year. The aim is to appoint a transitional government to prepare a new constitution and to create an independent commission "to establish truth and justice" on the activities of the government.
The words that come back to Algeria, then, are the same ones that filled the streets of Cairo and Tunis: peaceful transition, justice and freedom. Also for this CNCD continues to clamor for an independent inquiry to shed light on the death of Ahmed Kerroumi, university lecturer and member of CNCD, found dead last week after five days if they were untraceable.
According to the Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights, after all, the end state of emergency was decided in February after 19 years, which would remove restrictions on freedom of expression and association, when there was only a promise. Tiziana Guerrisi Article 22 
Meanwhile, the square does not stop, and the events organized every week the police continue to respond with their batons. On April 23, police dispersed two protests in the capital: one of several hundred employees in front of the school's National People's Assembly demanded wage increases and those organized by the National Coordination for Change and Democracy (CNCD) a few miles away .
On the ground, according to witnesses, would have been dozens of injuries. The same scenario was repeated two days ago before the presidential palace in Algiers, when hundreds of Physicians, on strike since March 7, took to the streets. On the Facebook page of the Collective of Physicians graced the few pictures of the clashes escaped the control of the police, who arrested many doctors phones and beat several journalists.
According Marouane Sid Ali, spokesman for the Collective, at least "ten physicians were injured by police, while others have been arrested and no one knows" if yet been released. " If the numbers of events are still far from those in Tahrir Square led to the fall of the Mubarak regime, the government seems more and more worried.
President Bouteflika, in fact, already in mid-April after he did not speak in public for three months, officially announced a period of reform to avert the worst. At the end of the council of ministers on Wednesday, then did more. He announced a road map for reform, indicating areas for action: the electoral law, the reform of the field of information and journalism in a country where television is public and therefore in the hands of the government.
Bouteflika has also made it clear that the difficult task will be to drive Abdelkader Bensalah, president of the upper house of parliament and likely successor to the president in the upcoming elections. What is unclear is what will be the "national personality" with which the regime has announced plans to talk about the reforms.
That is, what role would the civil society organizations, the real star of the Arab Spring. What is certain is that the opposition movement will not stand by and watch: the CCD, in fact, anticipated the words of Bouteflika on Wednesday, April 23 and already has put pen to paper claims shared "with the other forces of democratic change" .
His recipe for the new course provides an Algerian National Transitional Council is composed of persons engaged in the democratic struggle whose work must be completed within a year. The aim is to appoint a transitional government to prepare a new constitution and to create an independent commission "to establish truth and justice" on the activities of the government.
The words that come back to Algeria, then, are the same ones that filled the streets of Cairo and Tunis: peaceful transition, justice and freedom. Also for this CNCD continues to clamor for an independent inquiry to shed light on the death of Ahmed Kerroumi, university lecturer and member of CNCD, found dead last week after five days if they were untraceable.
According to the Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights, after all, the end state of emergency was decided in February after 19 years, which would remove restrictions on freedom of expression and association, when there was only a promise. Tiziana Guerrisi Article 22
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