Thursday, February 17, 2011

Growing demonstrations in Yemen, reported one death

Protests against the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh to spread throughout Yemen and clashes between police and protesters in the south of the country caused the death of a young man of 21 years, said his father. Hundreds of people took to the streets in Sana'a, Aden and Taiz. In the capital Sanaa, at least 800 demonstrators marched through the streets near the university despite police efforts to stop the protest.

Protesters showed the weapons that were attacked (image). At least 14 people were injured in clashes in Benghazi, Libya, between protesters and security forces. The newspaper Quryna "said that among the injured are" three saboteurs and 10 policemen, "without elaborating on the last wounded.

The authorities intervened to end clashes between supporters of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and" saboteurs "among the protesters. The cell leader of the Hezbollah group, Sami Chehab, who escaped from an Egyptian jail after the unrest in that country, "remains in the demonstrations.

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