Latest news and updates According to the internet media provided real hot topic infomation,that new and updates is,Thousands of people on Saturday defied a government ban on demonstrations and poured into the Algerian capital for a pro-democracy rally, and the head of the country's human rights group said as many as 400 people had been arrested.
Ali Yahia Abdenour, who heads the Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights, said women and foreign journalists were among those arrested during the five-kilometre-long march to 1 May Square in the city's centre.
The demonstrations in Algiers came just one day after weeks of mass protests toppled Egypt's authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak.A crowd that organizers estimated at 10,000 skirmished with riot police attempting to block streets and disperse the crowd. Officials put the turnout at only 1,500.
Reports suggested that heavily armed security forces far outnumbered the demonstrators. The Algerian daily newspaper La Liberte said an estimated 28,000 riot police had been deployed in the capital.
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