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.

But Renesys, an Internet monitoring company that closely tracked the Egyptian Internet shutdown, said in late Saturday afternoon that it was not seeing an Internet shutdown in Algeria: "Algeria typically has about 135 routed network prefixes in the global routing table, and our data show that they are all still routed and relatively stable."

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.