Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Eight lawmakers from Yemen's ruling party, General People's Congress, have resigned in part to protest the violence that anti-government demonstrators have faced as they call for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down.
The parliamentarians submitted their resignations Wednesday.
"I resigned because there's been no respect by the government for human rights, because of the attacks against protesters and journalists, because the security forces are not doing their jobs," said lawmaker Abdu Bishr.
A second lawmaker echoed those sentiments.
"It's their right to protest, according to the law here," Abdulaziz Jubari said।
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/02/24/yemen.protests/index.html?hpt=T2
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