Tens of Yemeni-Americans have gathered in front of a luxury hotel in Manhattan, where Yemeni outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh is staying, at the hear of New York to protest against granting the tyrant a temporarily haven and letting him receive medical treatment in USA soil.
As Saleh along with UN Yemeni representative and several security guards exited the hotel a Yemeni-American, Ameen al-Maroot, who was arrested later by US security gaurds, threw the autocrat with his show, which almost hit him.
"Send Saleh to the Hague," and" NYC cries fear, Saleh is here." The protesters banners read.
"Shame on Ritz, hosting a criminal," "ICC not NYC," and" Saleh, oh thug, we will come for you, we will get you." They chanted.
"The group plans to stage protests through out this week and will and on Friday the organization will march across the Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall," Wall Street Journal quoted Ibrahim Qatabi, the spokesmen for the Yemeni American Coalition for change, as saying.
Saleh is allegedly responsible for heavy handed crackdown of peaceful protesters demanding his ouster, leaving hundreds of them killed and others wounded.
Under enormous pressure from with and out, Saleh has signed a GCC-brokered deal under which he relinquished power to Vice President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, the consensus candidate for the upcoming presidential elections set to take place on February 21, in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
Massive popular protests calling for President Saleh's ouster combined with al-Qaeda anarchy in the south, Shiite insurgency in the far north and increasing calls for separation of the south has shaken Yemen, leaving thousands killed, bringing the state to its knees, pushing the economy to the brink of collapse and triggering a catastrophic humanitarian crisis.