Tens of thousands of opponents and supporters of embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh held rival rallies following prayers on the first Friday of the Muslim fasting Ramadan month. “Our revolution is popular, and we will continue peacefully” chanted large masses of anti-regime protesters who gathered in Sanaa’s Sittin Street for a rally entitled “peaceful until victory,” an AFP correspondent reported.
“The tyrant will go, and the people will stay,” chanted the crowds that organisers put at around 250,000. Large anti-regime protests were also held across Yemen. In Taez, Yemen’s second largest city, a mass protest was held in Freedom Square, calling for an end of Saleh’s regime and insisting on following peaceful ways
to achieve the goals of their protest.