Friday, February 25, 2011

Tens of thousands rally across Yemen http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/25/tens-of-thousands-rally-across-yemen/

Tens of thousands of Yemenis demonstrated after the main weekly Muslim prayers around the country on Friday to demand that veteran President Ali Abdullah Saleh step down.In the capital, thousands poured into a main square near Sanaa University, many of them women, chanting "Out, out!" and "God bears witness to your acts, Abdullah," an AFP correspondent reported. Police set up checkpoints close by.The protesters have dubbed Friday "the beginning of the end" for Saleh's regime which has been in power in Sanaa since 1978."There is no solution unless the regime steps down," prayer leader Sheikh Abdullah Satar told the faithful over a megaphone.

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