Since Friday night, large numbers of forces have been deployed to the streets and sporadic firing has been heard in as the protests continued.
Local sources said the elite republican guard and the central security are trying to disperse the protest in Jamal street in which educators have been protesting their salary suspension and cuts. " As if the forces were given orders to use force to break up the rally," the sources said.
On Friday, Saleh attacked the opposition in his speech to his supporters in the capital, accusing them of committing sabotage acts and urging them to come back to the dialogue table and seek power through the right ways including the ballot boxes.
He also warned that his supporters all over the country along with the army will face the protesters and saboteurs, as he urged the opposition to 'stop playing with fire'.
Also, the security forces conducted mass arrests in the square of freedom and Jamal St, with antigovernment protesters, mostly youths, taken to unknown places within the continuous crackdown on the protests, said an eyewitness.
Meantime, complete civil disobedience is paralyzing Yemen's business capital Aden coinciding with partial disobedience in Sana'a in response to the call of the youth-led protesters in the squares of change and freedom in many cities.
The protesters have recently urged the public and private sectors to conduct civil disobedience, even for hours on Saturdays and Wednesdays within, their escalation plan.
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has urged the GCC countries, which are currently pushing a seemingly failed mediation effort to tackle the Yemeni crisis, to remove the term calling for giving immunity to Saleh and his regime from prosecution.
In a statement, Joe Stork, Deputy Director for Middle East and North Africa at the Washington-based watchdog, urged the GCC countries and other countries involved in the deal for Saleh's resignation should withdraw their pledge ensuring giving the president and his regime officials immunity from prosecution after leaving office.
Instead, these countries should intervene to protect the lives of the Yemeni people amid the deadly crackdown on the antigovernment protests in many of the Yemeni cities, Stork said.
" We also urge to stop direct and indirect military aid to the Yemeni regime and refuse any immunity to be granted for those responsible for crimes including killing and torturing the civilians," he was quoted as saying.
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should not be helped to escape any punishment for any crimes against humanity, because the local and international courts are committed to trying those responsible for killing the innocents in Yemen despite agreements, some of which called for immunity from prosecution, he added.
Meantime, the GCC Secretary General is expected to arrive in Yemen soon to push the teetering GCC initiative, which the opposition and observers said has already died.