Google/AFP, Jan 27, 2011
WASHINGTON — The United States said Thursday it backs the right of Yemenis to "express themselves and assemble freely" amid mass demonstrations in Yemen.
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Yemenis attend a protest calling President Ali Abdullah Saleh to quit |
"We're aware that there are protests in Sana and other Yemeni cities, and our message is the same," State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters.
Earlier this month US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton paid a lightning visit to Yemen aimed at helping President Ali Abdullah Saleh tackle political and other problems that allow Al-Qaeda to threaten his country and the West.
Thousands of Yemenis, apparently inspired by events in Tunisia and Egypt, held a mass demonstration on Thursday calling on President Ali Abdullah Saleh to quit after holding power since 1978.
It came a day after a 28-year-old man set fire to himself in the port city of Aden, the ex-capital of the the formerly independent south, witnesses said.
That brought to four the number of such copycat self-immolation attempts in the Arab world's poorest nation.
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