YEMEN + VIDEO: Women Take The Lead In On-Going Protests

April 2011 -- Yemeni women bravely protest in the streets with their fathers and brothers and sons, despite the attempts of President Saleh to misuse the principles of Islam as a prohibition against Muslim women "mixing" with men in public. Muslim women are among the BRAVE HEROES of Yemen like Tawakul Karman, Nobel Prize Winner of 2011.
via youtube.com

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Yemeni women burn veils

in protest at Saleh regime

From: @SummerNasser

Yemeni women burnt their veils on Wednesday in a highly symbolic act of defiance against the regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh and its brutal crackdown on protests. Thousands of women marched in the capital, Sana’a, and burned their veils in protest at the government’s violent repression of demonstrators. Over 200 people have been killed and thousands injured since protests began here in February.

From ppryemen

 

From: @SummerNasser

Yemeni women burnt their veils on Wednesday in a highly symbolic act of defiance against the regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh and its brutal crackdown on protests. Thousands of women marched in the capital, Sana’a, and burned their veils in protest at the government’s violent repression of demonstrators. Over 200 people have been killed and thousands injured since protests began here in February.