ALGIERS - Tension is rising in the Algerian capital. Police this morning has made stops in the center of Algiers, where, despite a ban by the authorities, met the protesters. And there were also clashes when a procession of about two thousand people managed to break through a cordon formed by police officers in riot gear.
After this initial breakthrough, the police departments have started to charge the protesters and there were numerous injuries. To disperse the crowd, police fired tear gas. Protesters responded by throwing stones. The original program of the event was not permitted May Day march from the square in Martyrs' Square, a distance of about 4 km, but the police prevented the conduct of the parade.
Demonstrators crowded the square, however, May Day and the neighboring streets. The police had been deployed in the streets of the capital long before the opposition rally in the capital today. Al-Arabiya said that last Thursday the local newspaper 'Echorouk' had spoken of 25 000 men employed by the police.
The protest today was defined as the "day of the turning point." Unions, opposition parties and associations have called for expressions to claim "democracy and freedom" but also "a change of regime." Two Algerian opposition leader took to the streets in Algiers joining the May Day protesters, surrounded by security forces, which are present in large numbers.
This is Ali Yahia Abdenour, octogenarian president of the Algerian League for Human Rights, and Said Sadi, leader of the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD). 
After this initial breakthrough, the police departments have started to charge the protesters and there were numerous injuries. To disperse the crowd, police fired tear gas. Protesters responded by throwing stones. The original program of the event was not permitted May Day march from the square in Martyrs' Square, a distance of about 4 km, but the police prevented the conduct of the parade.
Demonstrators crowded the square, however, May Day and the neighboring streets. The police had been deployed in the streets of the capital long before the opposition rally in the capital today. Al-Arabiya said that last Thursday the local newspaper 'Echorouk' had spoken of 25 000 men employed by the police.
The protest today was defined as the "day of the turning point." Unions, opposition parties and associations have called for expressions to claim "democracy and freedom" but also "a change of regime." Two Algerian opposition leader took to the streets in Algiers joining the May Day protesters, surrounded by security forces, which are present in large numbers.
This is Ali Yahia Abdenour, octogenarian president of the Algerian League for Human Rights, and Said Sadi, leader of the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD).
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