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Anger flares up in Yemeni town - Middle East - Al Jazeera English NewsIn DepthProgrammesVideoBlogsBusinessWeatherSportWatch Live AfricaAmericasAsia-PacificCentral & South AsiaEuropeMiddle EastFocusOpinionFeaturesInteractiveSpotlightBriefingsYour ViewsRiz KhanWitnessInside StoryListening PostPeople & PowerMore??Counting the CostNewsThe Business Blog??? Middle East Anger flares up in Yemeni town Protests erupt in Taiz a day after deadly anti-government demonstrations and president's rejection of proposal to leave. Last Modified: 09 Apr 2011 13:53 Email Article Print Article Share Article Send Feedback Al Jazeera's special correspondent reports on anti-government and pro-Saleh protests on Friday [Reuters]

Angry demonstrations have erupted in the southern Yemeni town of Taiz, as people rally against the killing of pro-democracy protesters there.

About 100,000 people marched in Taiz on Saturday, the Associated press reported. This follows the death of four demonstrators after security forces opened fired and shot tear gas at crowds the day before.

Demonstrators are blaming the local governor, chief of security and leader of the ruling party for the violence which left about 400 people injured in the earlier protests.

"The police are becoming?increasingly intolerant of protesters. It seems [president] Ali Abdullah Saleh is once again really trying to show his force," Al Jazeera's special correspondent in the capital Sanaa said.

The fresh?protests?come as Yemen recalled its envoy from Qatar over a dispute?on a Gulf Arab plan for Saleh to step down.

Saba, the official Yemeni news agency,?said?the ambassador?was recalled for consultation on the recent statement made by Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem about the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council's (GCC)?offer of mediation between Saleh and the opposition.

The GCC proposed that Saleh hand over power to his deputy in return for immunity from prosecution for him and his family.

Saleh rejected the?offer in a speech before tens of thousands of cheering supporters in the capital Sanaa on Friday.

Rallying cry

More than two dozen Yemenis were wounded by gunfire during Friday's opposition protests in Taiz [Reuters]

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators also gathered in Sanaa and across Yemen on Friday to call for Saleh's immediate ouster.

The death?of the demonstrators in Taiz?caused a rallying cry across the country, and saw protests continue for a second straight day.

In Taiz, activist Ghazi al-Samei said protesters were in the yard in front of the governor's office and had been there since Friday. The demonstrators, joined by several members of parliament, are demanding the governor's removal and trial.

Abdel-Malek al-Youssefi, another activist, said tanks were at the city's outskirts to prevent people from other towns taking part in the rally and that many supporters of the ruling Congress Party changed their allegiances and joined the ranks of the opposition, the AP said.

Saturday also saw?thousands of anti-government protesters take to the strests of other major cities, including?Sanaa, Aden, Ibb, al-Hudaydah and Hadramawt, in support of the Taiz protesters.

"It has just been absolute chaos in the last few few hours here in the capital," said Al Jazeera's correspondent in Sanaa.

"There were hundreds of people who had left [Change] Square, pro-democracy protesters who were just marching in the street ... More people getting very angry. they are seeing what is happening in Taiz and in other cities as people go out on the streets and demonstrate and really step up the street protests. They are watching that and they are copying that, and they are trying to make their voices heard in the capital too."

Protesters have been calling since January for the departure of Saleh, who has been in power since 1978.

Calls for departure

Saleh initially accepted an offer by Qatar, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab states trying to broker an end to bloody protests and hold talks with the opposition.

But he later rejected the plan for his exit in a speech broadcast on state television on Friday.

"We were born free, and we have free will, and they have to respect our wishes. We reject any coup against democracy, the constitution and our freedom," he told supporters in Sanaa on Friday.

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Saleh said: "Our power comes from the power of our great people, not from Qatar, not from anyone else. This is blatant interference in Yemeni affairs."

Our?correspondent in Sanaa said: "Saleh addressed his supporters to make a total rejection of the offer put forward by the Gulf Co-operation Council.

"He singled out Qatar and Al Jazeera and said, 'We don't have to follow their agenda'."

Al Jazeera's correspondent was stopped and searched near the ongoing protests in the capital on Saturday. She was briefly detained for ten minutes, and then allowed to leave.

"Lots of men holding guns and lots of other people just wearing civilian clothes came towards me," she said of the incident.

"They took my phone, they started shouting saying that?I was a spy, and that i was filming ... the soldiers told me that?I was not allow to film. They took things off me, they searched me, they held the gun to my stomach. It was a very threatening environment."

More than 120 people have been killed since Yemen's protests calling for an end to Saleh's rule began on February 11, inspired by popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.

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