Ceasefire breaks between between Yemeni troops and followers of the country's most powerful tribal leader. Shelling by Syrian forces kills at least one person in Homs province
Navi Pillay, the UN human rights commissioner on human rights, said she had received reports, yet to be fully verified, that more than 50 people have been killed since Sunday in Taiz by Yemeni Army, with hundreds more injured
A protest camp in Horriya Square was destroyed using water cannons, bulldozers and live ammunition. Pillay said:
Such reprehensible acts of violence and indiscriminate attacks on unarmed civilians by armed security officers must stop immediately. I urge all sides to cease the use of force and I remind the Government of its responsibility to ensure that the fundamental human rights of its citizens are protected.
At least 100 individuals are believed to have been arrested over the weekend in Taiz, while dozens of others are unaccounted for, Pillay said. She called on the government to investigate cases of disappearances and the many reports her staff have received of ill-treatment, torture and killings, and to bring perpetrators to justice.
The Government must not resort to arbitrary and illegal arrests. Individuals detained for exercising their rights to peaceful assembly and expression should be released without delay.
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• Heavy fighting has resumed in Sana'a after a brief ceasefire between Yemeni government troops and followers of the country's most powerful tribal leader ended.
Government forces attacked the heavily guarded home of Sheik Sadeq al-Ahmar, who heads the most powerful tribal confederation in Yemen and has joined the protest movement seeking to oust President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Al-Ahmar's armed followers fought back and reoccupied several government buildings they had seized in the first round of fighting between the sides last week. There was no immediate information on casualties.
• At least one person has died as the Syrian military used heavy machine-guns and artillery in the third day of a crackdown in Homs province, activists said.
The Local Coordination Committees in Syria, which helps organize and document the country's protests, said heavy gunfire could be heard in Rastan, which is a few miles (kilo north of the central city of Homs. They identified the latest person killed as Ibrahim Salmoun. His death raises to 16 the number of people killed since Sunday.
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