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Arabia
Yemenis Hold Fresh Anti-Regime Demos Nationwide
2012-03-31
Yemeni anti-regime protesters have once again taken to the streets across the country to call for the fulfillment of revolution's goals.

Demonstrators held protest rallies after Friday prayers in several cities including the capital, Sana'a, and the southern city of Taizz.

They also called for the expulsion of any member of the government, who is affiliated with deposed dictator President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
, and demanded that the former longtime ruler be prosecuted for the deaths of many protesters that have been killed since last year.

Saleh, who ruled Yemen for 33 years, stepped down in February under a US-backed power transfer deal in return for immunity.

His deputy, UK-trained field marshal Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, replaced him on February 25 following a single-candidate presidential election backed by the United States and Soddy Arabia. Hadi will serve for an interim two-year period as stipulated by the power transfer deal which granted Saleh and his closest allies immunity from prosecution.

Saleh's eldest son Ahmed now commands the elite Republican Guard, his nephew Yehya heads the central security services and another nephew, Tariq, controls the Presidential Guard.

Saleh's General People's Congress (GPC) party also has17 ministers in the new 34-member cabinet.
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