Yemen: Police Fail to Stop Attacks on Protesters

Mourners take part in the funeral of an anti-government protester in Sanaa, Yemen, March 11, 2011.

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Yemeni authorities should take immediate steps to ensure that security forces prevent assaults against anti-government protesters and arrest those responsible. In city after city in Yemen, security forces have stood by or fled, and failed to protect people exercising their right to peaceful assembly. In some cases it appeared that too few police were deployed to halt the attacks.

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