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More than 20,000 demonstrators stage protest in Yemen
Shops and banks closed as demonstrators chanted slogans for and against the ruling party as part of a nationwide protest
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh addresses an emergency session of parliament and the consultative council in the capital Sanaa on February 2, 2011 (AFP/Getty Images)
Yemeni opposition journalist Abdel Karim al-Khaiwani joins a protest calling for the ouster of Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Khaiwani, the editor-in-cheif of the Yemeni Al-Shoura weekly newspaper was jailed but later pardoned by the president in 2005. (AFP/Getty Images)
Yemeni activist Tawakel Karman (R), who heads a rights group, joins a protest calling for the ouster of Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the capital Sanaa on January 29, 2011. (AFP/Getty Images)
Dozens of Yemeni activists calling for the ouster of Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh clash with the regime’s supporters in Sanaa during protests on January 29, 2011, apparently inspired by events in Tunisia and Egypt. (AFP/Getty Images)
Yemenis attend a protest calling President Ali Abdullah Saleh to quit on January 27, 2011 in Sanaa as thousands of Yemenis, apparently inspired by events in Tunisia and Egypt, staged a mass demonstration calling on President Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign after being in power since 1978. (AFP/Getty Images)
Yemenis attend a protest calling President Ali Abdullah Saleh to quit on January 27, 2011 in Sanaa as thousands of Yemenis, apparently inspired by events in Tunisia and Egypt, staged a mass demonstration calling on President Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign after being in power since 1978. (AFP/Getty Images)
Yemenis attend a protest calling President Ali Abdullah Saleh to quit on January 27, 2011 in Sanaa as thousands of Yemenis, apparently inspired by events in Tunisia and Egypt, staged a mass demonstration calling on President Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign after being in power since 1978. (AFP/Getty Images)
Yemenis attend a protest calling President Ali Abdullah Saleh to quit after being in power since 1978 on January 27, 2011 in Sanaa. (AFP/Getty Images)
Fully-veiled Yemeni women protest on January 24, 2011 outside the public prosecution headquarters in Sanaa, along with thousands of demonstrators including leaders of parliamentary opposition parties who observed a solidarity sit-in with political activist Tawakel Karman. Kerman was set free by the authorities following her arrest over the weekend on charges of inciting disorder through her involvement in protests for Tunisia’s uprising at which calls were raised for political change in Yemen. (AFP/Getty Images)
