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Yemen: women burn veils in Sanaa in anti-Saleh protest

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Yemen: women burn veils in Sanaa in anti-Saleh protest

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Hundreds of women have set fire to their traditional veils in Yemen in protest at the violence used against anti-government demonstrators.

The women, in the capital Sanaa, made a pile of veils in the street which they then doused with petrol and set alight.

Women have played a key part in the uprising against Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Read more on BBC News, published 26 Oct

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Hundreds of women have set fire to their traditional veils in Yemen in protest at the violence used against anti-government demonstrators.

The women, in the capital Sanaa, made a pile of veils in the street which they then doused with petrol and set alight.

Women have played a key part in the uprising against Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Read more on BBC News, published 26 Oct

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