Algeria to lift emergency powers

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Source: AJE

Algeria's 19-year state of emergency will be lifted in the "very near future", state media has quoted Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the president, as saying.

During a meeting with ministers on Thursday, the president also said Algerian television and radio, which are controlled by the state, should give airtime to all political parties.

He added that protest marches, banned under the state of emergency, would be permitted across the country of 35 million except in the capital.

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"I think others who are maybe in similar positions to Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, are learning from this experience and perhaps the counter-productive thing to do is to crack down on protests," he said.



Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/02/20112315364175524.html

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1. We need a few things done in this country...overturning of Patriot Act/Homeland Security....

interferences with the right to freedom of assembly --

Reinstating Habeas Corpus --

on and on -- when do we start?

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2. We come last of everybody is my guess. nt