Summary Diallo's home and those of other prominent opposition leaders were earlier cordoned off by security.
CONAKRY (AFP) - Guinean security forces on Thursday clashed with protesters in the capital Conakry who demanded a revision of an election timetable that they say stacks the odds in the regime s favour, an AFP journalist and witnesses said.
The clashes came a day before President Alpha Conde and opposition chief Cellou Dalein Diallo were due to hold talks, the first such meeting in three years.
But Diallo said late Thursday he would not attend the meeting with the president because of the violence against opposition protesters.
"I will not go there tomorrow," Diallo said. "Given the violence and abuses by the security forces against opposition activists, I decline to honour this appointment."
Diallo s home and those of other prominent opposition leaders were earlier cordoned off by security forces.
"My family and I are being held against our will," Diallo said earlier.
The opposition urged more demonstrations -- this time nationwide -- on Monday.
They are calling for local elections to be held before a presidential vote due in October.
They believe Conde wants the calendar to remain unchanged because he wants to keep his cronies in local administrations, to help him rig the October vote.
The president denies the claims, arguing that local officials will not be involved in the vote.
Colonel Ansouma Camara of the Guinean police said the opposition leaders homes were being surrounded in order to minimise violence.
Two weeks of violent confrontations in April left several people dead and dozens wounded in the country s largest towns and cities.
Then on Monday, one person died and at least 20 were wounded as fresh clashes broke out in the capital.
Thursday s clashes hit several districts in the suburbs of Conakry, where many store owners closed their businesses for the day while the flow of traffic was blocked in some areas.
Young men threw stones at the security forces, who responded with teargas in some areas.
Some protesters burned tyres and set up barricades on the Fidel Castro highway linking the heart of the capital to the airport.
