Hundreds have turned out for a protest in Sanaa in Yemen to voice their anger after the assassination of a political leader.<br /><br />Mohamed Abdelmalik al-Motowakal of the liberal Union of Popular Forces party was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on Sunday.<br /><br />This just hours after the country’s main political factions signed an agreement to form a new government.<br /><br />University professor Aminah al-Nosiri told reporters: “There is a clearing out of thinking people, the matter is not connected to political conflict. It is a targeting of those who carry the idea of a civil life and state. The issue goes back many years.”<br /><br />Another professor, Zaid Attif, said: “The assassination is like the assassination of the Yemeni dream. Every citizen is looking for safe and intelligent ways of leading a civil life and to build a civil state.”<br /><br />It is hoped the political agreement signed on Saturday will defuse political tensions in Yemen, with the president and the prime minister given a mandate to form a new government.
