Yemeni security forces used electric tasers and batons Sunday to attack young protesters who had gathered for a third day in anti-government demonstrators, claimed a prominent rights group.
"Without provocation, government security forces brutally beat and tasered peaceful demonstrators on the streets of Sanaa," according to Sarah Leah Whitson, the Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch.

"The government needs to take full responsibility for this abuse."
Several thousand protesters gathered on Sunday and tried to reach a central square in the capital Sanaa, but security forces beat them back, Al Jazeera English reports.
Protesters in Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country, are demanding political reforms and the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

The protests were the largest yet by young Yemenis and were mostly organized via text messages. Established opposition groups who had organized earlier protests did not join these.
"Unlike the earlier protests in Yemen, which were highly organized and marked by color-coordinated clothing and signs, the spontaneity of the younger demonstrators appeared to have more in common with popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, where opposition groups watched from the sidelines as leaderless revolts grew into revolutions," reports The New York Times.

Protests and demonstrations spread across the Arab world this weekend following the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt on Friday. In addition to Yemen, Algeria, Bahrain and Jordan saw new protests as well as clashes with security forces.
In the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority dismissed its cabinet and called for new elections.
And in Iran, political opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi issued a statement supporting new protests in the country.
"Mubarak's Friday-night resignation appeared to boost momentum for opposition forces around the region and raise the stakes for regimes trying to head them off," reports the Wall Street Journal.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/m...rotests-tasers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do3yLWwCiPs

Algeria is definitely following Egypt's example (the Government that is).

They already shut down the Internet and deleted Facebook's accounts.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...c2c 415511f,0

I doubt anyone else will be able to follow Egypt's path, the governments now understand what's happening and what's at stake and their shutting things down as quickly as possible. Egypt essentially managed to blindside their government before the higher ups realized what was happening (which is why their revolution succeeded).

So, now we've got Tunisia and Egypt revolted... Yemen, Algeria and Iran protesting/trying to do something...

Anyone want to start a pool?

at PHLN, I hope that's not the case.

and apparently their prsident is willing "to hear opinions from people", or is he just faking it?

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english201...c_13732113.htm

Originally Posted by Eternal Fire

at PHLN, I hope that's not the case.

and apparently their prsident is willing "to hear opinions from people", or is he just faking it?

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english201...c_13732113.htm

Seems to be going well at least from the recent headlines. Though you have to go WTF? when the first thing the government did was to just down the Internet.

http://english.aljazeera.net /news/...5219570.htm l

"Hearing opinions" I also hope doesn't go like this: "Tell us your opinions please while standing over by that wall with this blindfold on"

EDIT:

Going through the news actually, it does seems to match with Tailsnake stated. The government is understand and taking stronger action at the start so it doesn't become another Egypt case.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...th-police.html

http://english.aljazeera.net /news/...0627461.ht ml

EDIT 2:

Live blog

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/africa/20...dium= twitter

February 15, 2011
5:36am Hundreds of youths clashed last night with security forces during protests in the northern Algerian town of Akbou, the BBC reports.