Over 2500 people are continuing their protest in Taiz, with organizers or overseers saying the protest entered a new phase on the fifth successive day.

Today temporary organizational, security and media committees were formed and tents were purchased to continue this protest until the regime is removed, said the organizers.

"We are about 2500 protesters and the people continue to arrive here in Osaifra district to participate in the protest".

We will not leave this place until we see our demand which is the ouster of President Saleh and his relatives holding posts is met, protesters told the Yemen Post.

"Whatever happens to us and even though policemen and bullies continue to attack us, beat us and hurl stones at us, we will not abandon our demand," they said, chanting: leave our president, follow Mubarak.

In Sana'a, riot police who were deployed in large numbers to the main streets continued on Tuesday to block student and activist protests.

Hundreds walked from Sana'a University heading to the presidential palace, but policemen with batons and protesters in favor of Saleh prevented them and tried to attack them. The protesters, mostly college students, then ended their protest.

Before they marched and were stopped at old Sana'a university, supporters of the regime gathered at new Sana'a university and prevented students from rallies.

These developments come as the fever of protest in the aftermath of the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions is sweeping through the region, with rallies and demonstrations demanding the departure of regimes and concrete political and economic changes.