Thousands of people marched through Paris and in other French cities on Saturday January 30,2016 to decry the proposed extension of a state of emergency imposed after the November Paris attacks.
Braving driving rain and shouting slogans including "state of emergency -- police state" the marchers protested loudly against a measure they see as curbing human rights.
Police put participation at 5,000 while organisers said some 20,000 people took part.
Protesters took to the streets in more than a dozen other cities including Toulouse and Bordeaux in the south in marches organised by unions, human rights organisations and other pressure groups.
Rights groups also reject a government plan to strip convicted French-born terrorists of their citizenship if they have a second nationality.
That proposal has already triggered the resignation of Justice Minister Christiane Taubira who stood down in protest over the plan this week after the constitutional reforms were presented to parliament.
Parliament is due in the coming days to debate the state of emergency as President Francois Hollande seeks parliamentary approval to extend the current three-month measure, which expires on February 26,2016
The Senate is to vote on the proposal on February 9, 2016 followed by a vote in the National Assembly on February 16,2016
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