Affrontements à الحديدة Hodeidah – 4 avril 2011

Yemen protesters and police clash, 400 wounded

reuters.com

SANAA | Sun Apr 3, 2011 11:22pm EDT

(Reuters) – Police using live rounds and tear gas wounded more than 400 protesters who tried to march to a presidential palace in Yemen‘s Red Sea city of Hudaida early on Monday, doctors said.

Protests inspired by uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia have brought President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 32-year rule to the verge of collapse. But the president called on Sunday for an end to the violence, signaling he has no intention of resigning soon.

Residents told Reuters that demonstrators organised the 2 a.m. march in protest against a security crackdown on rallies in Taiz, south of the capital, that killed two and wounded hundreds on Sunday.

A few thousand took part in the march, they said.

« They suddenly gathered around the province’s administrative building and headed to the presidential palace, but police stopped them by firing gunshots in the air and using teargas. I saw a lot of plainclothes police attack them too, » a witness told Reuters by phone. Read more…

(Reporting by Mohammed Ghobari and Joanne Allen in Washington)

Informations

Al Hudaydah (aussi orthographié Hodeidah ou Hodeida, (en arabe : الحديدة) est la quatrième plus grande ville du Yémen, avec une population de 400 000 habitants. Située sur la mer Rouge, la ville est un port important, à partir duquel sont exportés du café, du coton, des dattes, et des peaux.