Police forces on Sunday arrested roughly 32 unemployed people as they prepared to rally against joblessness near the presidential compound of El Mouradia in upper Algiers.

• Larabi, spokesman for the unemployment rights group CNDCC, said he was subsequently released but 25 of his colleagues were still held at various police stations.

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• The group had called the rally to demand more jobs, improved unemployment benefits and the right to demonstrate freely for their legitimate rights.
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• Algerian police on Wednesday briefly detained 17 people as they prepared to hold a rally commemorating the anniversary of the pro-democracy protests of  October 5^th 1988.
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• Algeria, a country of 35 million people, has an unemployment rate of 11 percent, according to the World Bank.
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• Meanwhile, some 50 teachers who lost their jobs after their short-term contracts expired, launched a hunger strike outside a ministry of education building Sunday, demanding that they be reinstated.
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• Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia had in March ordered the education ministry to make teachers’ contracts permanent but this excluded those without a graduate degree.
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