Yemenis call for intensified protests

Sun Sep 4, 2011

Yemeni protesters have held demonstrations in several cities across the country, calling for intensified anti-regime protests until victory is achieved, Press TV reports.

Demonstrators took to the streets on Sunday, one day after the chairman of the Yemeni National Council rejected a deal initiated by the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council, a Press TV correspondent reported.

Mohammed Basindwah warned on Saturday that the Yemeni opposition would accept the deal unless Ali Abdullah Saleh resigns first.

“We have a plan of escalating peaceful protests to stave Yemen off bloodshed, chaos and civil war that is being plotted by Saleh's regime, “ Basindwah said in a meeting of the 143-member National Council in the capital, Sana'a.

On Saturday, Yemenis once again rallied against the US and Saudi interference in their country's internal affairs. Demonstrators accused Riyadh and Washington of making efforts to save Saleh's ailing regime.

Saleh and five other high-ranking officials fled to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment following a rocket attack on the Yemeni presidential palace in Sana'a on June 3.

The Yemeni opposition also demands the exclusion of granting Saleh and his family immunity from prosecution from the [P]GCC-brokered deal.

Hundreds of people have been killed and many more injured in Yemen since January as a result of the brutal crackdown on anti-government protests by military forces and thugs loyal to Saleh.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.com/detail/197407.html.