.- The violence shook back to Yemen this Saturday, leaving seven injured, one day after the bloody police crackdown that left 52 dead and 126 wounded among the demonstrators demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. At least seven people were injured, three of them by gunshots, when Yemeni security forces opened fire on protesters guarding a roadblock in a suburb of Aden (south) and during a subsequent attack on a police station, witnesses said.
One protester was shot and three tear gas when security forces tried to dismantle, without success, a barricade erected two weeks ago, witnesses reported. Witnesses said some protesters went after a police station on fire intentionally. Three other people were injured, two of them by bullets when police guarding the station opened fire to drive back the protesters, witnesses and medical sources.
Aden in the south of the country, is spearheading the opposition against President Saleh, in power for 32 years. Several people have died in this city since the start of the protests, in late January. As a protest over this "slaughter", Yemen's ambassador in Beirut, Faisal Abourrass Amine, and the editor of the official news agency Saba, Nasser Taha Mustafa, resigned.
In addition, the photographer of the Yemeni weekly Al Masdar, Jamal al Charaabi, died Friday in Sana'a when a sniper opened fire on an anti-government demonstration, which left 52 dead, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Al Charaabi, 35, became the first journalist killed since protests began in late January.
"Surprisingly, this reporter has paid with his life for trying to inform their fellow citizens," the organization said. Yemeni opposition called the incidents of "slaughter", a word often used speakers in the University Square. "What right have the butcher Ali Abdullah Saleh terrorist is allowed to establish a state of emergency, while he became a wanted person for having committed a slaughter against their people?" Said a representative from the crowd.
The state of emergency allows the police to quell demonstrations and restrict civil liberties. The Information Ministry on Saturday expelled two correspondents of the Qatari television network Al Jazeera, accusing them of "inciting" violence in the coverage of the demonstrations. Saleh, meanwhile, expressed regret on Friday that the state of emergency decreed in the country and asked the demonstrators to evacuate the University Square in the center of the capital, symbol of the mobilization.
In addition, the U.S. president, Barack Obama condemned the violence and urged the president to authorize the demonstrations. U.S. considers Yemen as an ally in the war against terrorism. For its part, Iran on Saturday expressed concern over the crackdown in Yemen. "The presence of foreign troops from some countries in the region to quell the peaceful demonstrations of the people of Bahrain and Yemen is unacceptable and regrettable," Foreign Ministry spokesman said Foreign Mehmanparast Ramin.
On Friday, 52 people were killed and 126 wounded in the capital Sana'a, by shooting at demonstrators, according to an statement on Saturday by medical sources. 
One protester was shot and three tear gas when security forces tried to dismantle, without success, a barricade erected two weeks ago, witnesses reported. Witnesses said some protesters went after a police station on fire intentionally. Three other people were injured, two of them by bullets when police guarding the station opened fire to drive back the protesters, witnesses and medical sources.
Aden in the south of the country, is spearheading the opposition against President Saleh, in power for 32 years. Several people have died in this city since the start of the protests, in late January. As a protest over this "slaughter", Yemen's ambassador in Beirut, Faisal Abourrass Amine, and the editor of the official news agency Saba, Nasser Taha Mustafa, resigned.
In addition, the photographer of the Yemeni weekly Al Masdar, Jamal al Charaabi, died Friday in Sana'a when a sniper opened fire on an anti-government demonstration, which left 52 dead, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Al Charaabi, 35, became the first journalist killed since protests began in late January.
"Surprisingly, this reporter has paid with his life for trying to inform their fellow citizens," the organization said. Yemeni opposition called the incidents of "slaughter", a word often used speakers in the University Square. "What right have the butcher Ali Abdullah Saleh terrorist is allowed to establish a state of emergency, while he became a wanted person for having committed a slaughter against their people?" Said a representative from the crowd.
The state of emergency allows the police to quell demonstrations and restrict civil liberties. The Information Ministry on Saturday expelled two correspondents of the Qatari television network Al Jazeera, accusing them of "inciting" violence in the coverage of the demonstrations. Saleh, meanwhile, expressed regret on Friday that the state of emergency decreed in the country and asked the demonstrators to evacuate the University Square in the center of the capital, symbol of the mobilization.
In addition, the U.S. president, Barack Obama condemned the violence and urged the president to authorize the demonstrations. U.S. considers Yemen as an ally in the war against terrorism. For its part, Iran on Saturday expressed concern over the crackdown in Yemen. "The presence of foreign troops from some countries in the region to quell the peaceful demonstrations of the people of Bahrain and Yemen is unacceptable and regrettable," Foreign Ministry spokesman said Foreign Mehmanparast Ramin.
On Friday, 52 people were killed and 126 wounded in the capital Sana'a, by shooting at demonstrators, according to an statement on Saturday by medical sources.
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