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Algerian protests quelled again by security forces
For the fourth successive Saturday, security forces in Algiers have rebuffed attempts by pro-democracy protesters to defy a government ban and march in the Algerian capital.
To outwit the authorities, demonstrators planned three marches in different places – only to be outnumbered and dispersed by police.
One opposition leader, Said Saadi, left the scene after being slightly injured by an apparent knife wound.
He was hounded by a group of around fifty pro-government youths, who in the words of one witness were determined ‘to lynch him’.
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