{"id":116434,"date":"2021-03-06T14:17:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T06:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116434"},"modified":"2021-03-06T14:17:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T06:17:23","slug":"in-revival-of-street-movement-algerians-protest-for-second-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116434","title":{"rendered":"In revival of street movement, Algerians protest for second Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/000_94C84J.jpg?resize=770%2C513\" alt=\"Algerian demonstrators march during an anti-government protest in the capital Algiers on Friday [Ryad Kramdi\/AFP]\"\/><figcaption>Algerian demonstrators march during an anti-government protest in the capital Algiers on Friday <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ALGIERS, March 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Thousands of Algerians demonstrated against the political and military elite in cities across the country for a second successive Friday, as the United Nations human rights body voiced concern at what it called a crackdown on protesters.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The demonstrations mark a resumption of the street protest movement, calling for the old political establishment to depart and the army to quit politics, that suspended its weekly marches a year ago because of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police have not stopped the protests but maintain a heavy street presence and the spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said there was reliable information that hundreds had been arrested around the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mass street protests erupted in 2019, prompting the military to oust veteran President Abdulaziz Bouteflika, and continued weekly until the global pandemic reached Algeria a year ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Thieves, you have destroyed the country,&#8221; the protesters chanted in central Algiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This peaceful revolution will continue until we fully achieve our goals,&#8221; said Mohamed Meriche, 33, a school teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, elected in 2019 in a vote that many protesters regarded as a charade, has hailed the movement as providing national renewal, but demonstrators see his government as a continuation of previous administrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There have been numerous instances across the country where security forces have used unnecessary or excessive force and arbitrary arrests to suppress peaceful demonstrations,&#8221; the spokesperson for the U.N. rights commissioner said on Friday. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<em>s<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALGIERS, March 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Thousands of Algerians demonstrated against the political and military elite in cities across the country for a second successive Friday, as the United Nations human rights body voiced concern at what it called a crackdown on protesters. The demonstrations mark a resumption of the street protest movement, calling for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116434"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}