21.   Hundreds of police were deployed around the building, but the rally went off without incident.

22.   A spokesman for another opposition leader, Vuk Draskovic, said the rallies would go on until disputed city assemblies are safely in opposition hands.

23.   A similar rally Friday also went off without incident.

24.   After Spain, the rally goes to Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.

25.   Despite the ban, one of the opposition leaders, Mamadou Lamine Traore, a former interior ministry, said the protest and a follow-up rally would go ahead.

26.   The rally went past the Grand Hyatt hotel where China was holding talks with selected local representatives.

27.   The rally went off without incident and similar demonstrations were held in other cities such as Logrones and Valladolid.

28.   Last year the rally went from Saint-Germain-des-Pres to the south of the river.

29.   Palestinian police were present outside the stadium but permitted the rally to go ahead.

30.   The government has given the SFTU a guarantee that the rally can go ahead and will not be broken up by police.