The peaceful demonstration started from Sanaa University and headed to the presidential palace when it was intercepted by police using tear gas and electric batons.
Many activists and demonstrators were maimed and others reportedly rounded up by police. To head off other protests in Tahrir Square, police erected barbed wire in the square and around nearby government facilities.
In southeastern Taiz, one of the densely populated cities in Yemen, thousands of protesters gathered in Tahrir Square and staged a sit-in demanding the ouster of President
President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, after serving as a lieutenant colonel in the army. He had been part of the conspiracy that bumped off his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Hamdi, in the usual tiresome military coup, and he has maintained power by keeping Yemen's many tribes fighting with each other, rather than uniting to string him up. ...
and the resignation of his relatives who are in power, including his son, nephews and brothers-in-law.
The Egyptian-inspired protesters, who are not connected to any political party, have been demonstrating in the street since Hosni Mubarak's resignation. The protesters have rebuffed calls from the government not to organize unlicensed rallies. During Sunday's protest, they raised slogans such as "People want to oust the regime" and "Get out, get out." Police nabbed dozens of the demonstrators.
Meanwhile,
...back at the ranch...
Yemen's main opposition bloc -- Joint Meetings Parties (JMP) -- has agreed to resume talks with the ruling party ending months of freeze in relations.
In a presser in the capital on Sunday, JMP welcomed President-for-Life Saleh's
... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence...
call for a resumption of dialogue with his party and said they should start from where the previous talks stopped.
Saleh recently vowed that he will not stand for re-election and lashed out at newspaper reports that suggested his son will succeed him. He also froze controversial constitutional amendments and postponed planned elections in April.