Thousands of people launched a procession in Al
Habilyn to continue the weekly protest that is known as "the Southern
Prisoner's Day", which is launched every Thursday.
The participants raised banners against the
Yemeni central government, demand "disassembling the unification"
between South Yemen and North
Yemen, and raised photographs of the
southern leader in exile, Ali Salem Al Baid.
A statement issued by the protests censured the
death penalty against the guard of Al Ayyam Newspaper, Ahmed Omer Obadi Al
Markashi.
The statement also censured turning the public
departments into military barracks, and the collective punishment against the
people of Radfan.
Other cities like Al Dhali, Azzan, Al Mahfed and
Lawder to express solidarity with the Southern Movement detainees and to
commemorate the memory of what is called the "Massacre of Zanzibar," when
the Yemeni security killed 15 people when trying to suppress a demonstration in
Zanzibar in Abyan province, on July 23, 2009.
* Photographs of people
demonstrating in Radfan, this morning, July 22, 2010.
Thousands of people launched a procession in Al
Habilyn to continue the weekly protest that is known as "the Southern
Prisoner's Day", which is launched every Thursday.
