Psychologists protest in Algiers

About 500 psychologists took to the street on Wednesday in Algiers to protest against their statute, compensation system and university training.

• The protest was scheduled out of the President’s Office but security forces stopped it. The psychologists marched until the Hospital of Mustapha Pacha while policemen were following them.
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• The president of the psychologists’ union Khaled Keddad entered in a clash with security forces and fell down. He was undressed while his colleagues condemned that. They warned over lodging a complaint to the national police chief about that.
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• The protesters shouted slogans condemning injustice, repression and negligence. They asked for Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s intervention, saying: “Bouteflika, come and see the truth.”
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• They denounced the health ministry and the minister Djamel Oueld Abbas, saying: “the ministry is a cemetery.”