{"id":1213,"date":"2011-01-19T14:02:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T14:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2011-01-19T14:02:15","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T14:02:15","slug":"tunisians-inspire-hundreds-of-yemenis-to-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2011\/01\/19\/1213\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisians inspire hundreds of Yemenis to protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"yemenis-protest\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/yemenis-protest.jpg\" width=\"242\" height=\"177\" \/>Hundreds of Yemeni protesters inspired by the Tunisian revolution took the streets to chant anti-government slogans in a university in Sanaa, Middle East Online reported on Wednesday.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yemeni police fired warning shots to disperse the demonstrators in Sanaa University. No injuries were reported despite the ani-riot police resorting to gunfire. Several students were also arrested, but according to a security official the arrested students were soon released.<br \/>The police failed to break the protest and were able only to contain it at the university\u2019s campus.<br \/>Demonstrators at the university chanted in support of Tunisia in the wake of popular protests that toppled the North African&#8217;s country&#8217;s iron-fisted leader, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali .<br \/>&#8220;Revolution, revolution, people against the frightened leader,&#8221; they shouted. &#8220;Liberty&#8217;s Tunisia, Sanaa salutes you a thousand times,&#8221; shouted the students. &#8220;Toppling the corrupt (leader) is a duty.&#8221;<br \/>Similar protests have been ongoing on a nearly daily basis in Yemen since Friday, when Ben Ali escaped to Saudi Arabia, ending his 23 years in power.<br \/>Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh has ruled 32 years. He was re-elected in September 2006 to a seven-year mandate.<br \/>A draft amendment of the constitution, under discussion in parliament despite opposition protests, could further stretch the president&#8217;s tenure by allowing a life-long mandate.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Alarabiya.net<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Yemeni protesters inspired by the Tunisian revolution took the streets to chant anti-government slogans in a university in Sanaa, Middle East Online reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tunisians inspire hundreds of Yemenis to protest - 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