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Yemeni Revolutionaries stage anti-regime protests

Anti-regime revolutionaries have once again staged a protest rally across Yemen to demand that the government dismiss everyone related to deposed ruler Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Revolutionaries came out in the capital Sana’a and the southern cities of Taizz and Ibb on Monday.

They also called for the prosecution of Saleh and his aides for the killing of thousands of protesters since last year.

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

Saleh’s deputy, UK-trained field marshal Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, replaced him following a single-candidate presidential election backed by the US and Saudi Arabia. Hadi will serve for a two-year period as stipulated by the power transfer deal.

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 has also 17 ministers in the 34-member unity cabinet.

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