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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/end-police-state-demand-algerians.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Thousands of people have defied an official ban on demonstrations in the Algerian capital, gathering in Algiers for a pro-reform rally (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-end-police-state-demand-algerians.jpg" alt="Thousands of people have defied an official ban on demonstrations in the Algerian capital, gathering in Algiers for a pro-reform rally (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Thousands of Algerians have defied government warnings and dodged barricades to rally in their capital, demanding democratic reforms a day after mass protests toppled Egypt&#8217;s autocratic ruler.</p>
<p>Protesters chanting &#8220;No to the police state!&#8221; and brandishing signs which read &#8220;Give us back our Algeria&#8221; clashed with baton-wielding police in helmets and visors.</p>
<p>Organisers said more than 400 people were briefly detained, but aside from some jostling between police and protesters no violence was reported.</p>
<p>Algeria has long been ruled by a repressive government and beset by widespread poverty and high unemployment &#8211; factors that helped foment popular uprisings that ousted leaders of two other North African nations in the past month.</p>
<p>Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was forced to resign on Friday after 30 years in power, and a &#8220;people&#8217;s revolution&#8221; in Tunisia, Algeria&#8217;s neighbour to the east, forced autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali into exile on January 14.</p>
<p>The opposition in Algeria said demonstrators&#8217; bold defiance of a long-standing ban on public protests in Algiers marked a turning point.</p>
<p>&#8220;This demonstration is a success because it&#8217;s been 10 years that people haven&#8217;t been able to march in Algiers and there&#8217;s a sort of psychological barrier,&#8221; said Ali Rachedi, the former head of the Front of Socialist Forces party. &#8220;The fear is gone.&#8221;</p>
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