Eyewitness said that Yemeni authorities in Sana'a and all Yemen's provinces started tightening security measures in an attempt to stop protesters from participating in an anti-government rallies in Yemen's province.
Sources told the Yemen Post that the government is tightening security, mainly in the capital, deploying policemen in large numbers with batons to the streets amid fears triggered by the wind of protest in the region in the aftermath of the Tunisian revolution in January.
They added that the regime deployed on Wednesday 2,000 soldiers, including plainclothes officers, to try to halt six days of demonstrations demanding President Saleh to step down.