Yemeni students in India stage sit-in [Archives:2006/951/Local News]

SANA'A, May 31 ) Approximately 300 Yemeni students began a sit-in Monday in front of the Yemeni consulate in Mumbai, India, demanding the Ministry of Higher Education and the cultural attache implement President Ali Abdullah Saleh's Feb. 18, 2005 directives to solve various problems they suffer.

Mumbai news reports mentioned that the striking students gathered in front of the Yemeni consulate lifting banners calling for implementing presidential directives to meet their demands, specifically increasing their monthly financial grants, releasing study fees the cultural attache is retaining and returning expended study assistance the Higher Education Ministry unjustifiably halted for several scholarship students.

According to Al-Wahdawi Net, Indian police permitted the students to demonstrate in Azad Meidan area near the Yemeni consulate.

Students told the Yemeni consul that their strike is protesting ministry and attache negligence, ignorance and not carrying out the president's directives, despite more than a year since their issuance. They said they wouldn't end the strike until their demands are met, even if forced to escalate the sit-in to a hunger strike under the nose of media and civil society organizations.
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