The report from of London says some 30,000 riot police were used to disperse crowds in Algiers and that journalists have been targeted by "state-sponsored thugs."

Reports of the blocking an Algerian government website have also surfaced.

EGYPT:

Protesters against President Abdelaziz Boutifleka's regime in Algeria have been encouraged by the success of anti-government movements in Egypt and Tunisia (a neighbor of Algeria) organized to a great extent via the Internet and social media. Egypt's economy by blocking Internet access.

The protests and Internet crackdowns in these countries have revived talk in the United States of giving the president an .