.- The Yemeni Minister of Human Rights, Hoda to Ban, and the deputy minister, Ali Tayseer, presented the resignation from their posts in protest at the deaths of half a hundred protesters on Friday, according to a government source. The source, who preferred anonymity, confirmed Efe has also resigned from the managing editor of the government newspaper "Al Zawra," Abdelrahman Berries, for the same reasons.
On Friday 45 people were killed and 270 were wounded by gunfire from unknown against an opposition rally near the University of Sana'a. Yesterday, the president of the Yemeni official news agency Saba, Nasr Taha Mustafa, and resigned his membership in the ruling General People's Congress, protesting what he called "a brutal slaughter." These layoffs are in addition to those presented recently by the Ministers of Tourism, Nabil al-Faqih, and Religious Affairs, the hetare Hanuda, and other 17 deputies and government officials.
Yemeni opposition has held protests weeks in Sana'a and other cities to demand the end of the regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in power since reunification of the country between north and south in 1990. 
On Friday 45 people were killed and 270 were wounded by gunfire from unknown against an opposition rally near the University of Sana'a. Yesterday, the president of the Yemeni official news agency Saba, Nasr Taha Mustafa, and resigned his membership in the ruling General People's Congress, protesting what he called "a brutal slaughter." These layoffs are in addition to those presented recently by the Ministers of Tourism, Nabil al-Faqih, and Religious Affairs, the hetare Hanuda, and other 17 deputies and government officials.
Yemeni opposition has held protests weeks in Sana'a and other cities to demand the end of the regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in power since reunification of the country between north and south in 1990.
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