Yemeni female activist leads uprising against Saleh
By Abdullah Al-Qubati, for Yemenat
Sanaa-Hundreds demonstrated in the capital city of Sanaa Sunday, protesting on detention of a journalist woman, Tawakkol Karman early on Sunday without prosecution permission, for her key role in massive demonstrations occurred past 8 days in Sanaa, calling for the ruling regime of Saleh to step down.
Sunday morning, people crowded around Sanaa University under the same demand beside protesting on arrest of Tawakkol. Security forces imposed blockade on the area to prevent them from a rally and detained many of them.
But another rally, begun from the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate and merged with the other demonstration, marched in hundreds towards the General Prosecution.
Protesters carried pictures of Karman and 8 others imprisoned in former protests for their demands for President Saleh overthrow.
Security forces harshly attacked the peaceful rally, beating anddetaining about 30 of them. An audio-tape displayed some demonstrators chanted “peaceful «rally»” while the security was beating them.
They also beat Ahmed Saif Hashed, a member of Parliament, with batons.
Many of media photographers who covered the rally were arrested and their cameras were confiscated, among of them the cameramen of al-Jazeera and al-Arrabyia channels.
Most of the detainees were journalists, human rights activists and students, including Ali al-Dailami and Khalid al-Anisi, prominent human rights activists and Marwan al-Janadi, an editor of Yemenat.
Sunday evening, hundreds went to sit-in in Taiz city, 256 from Sanaa, demanding Karmans release. 
They also shouted slogans against the ruling regime listening:
“leave President..Yemen have become miserable” and “our duty is to bring down the corrupt”. Security assaulted the protesters and arrested 5 of them.
Karman is also a chairman of local activist organization called “Women Journalists Without Chains”.
The Yemeni protests inspired by the Tunisian uprising culminated in the overthrow of Bin Alis regime.
While the indignant people aspired Yemen to be the second Tunisia, Saleh said in a speech delivered to the armed forces and security leaders Sunday “Yemen is not Tunisia”.
But his sense of danger of potential uprising was reflected indirectly in the same speech as he announced a raise in the salaries of armed and security forces by YR 5,000 per month, in addition to health insurance. “I will ask pardon of Yemeni people, if I have made a mistake or failed in my duty”, said Saleh.
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