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Farea al-Muslimi is a research fellow at the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House. On Twitter: @almuslimi.
![Defendants look out from their holding cell at the court room of a state security court of appeals in Sanaa December 31, 2013. They are among a group of ten suspects charged with involvement in a May 2012 suicide attack on a military parade rehearsal that left 86 police troopers dead and 171 others injured in Sanaa. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah (YEMEN - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST) - RTX16XWS](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/03/1-RTX16XWS.jpg/1-RTX16XWS.jpg?h=717f26e4&itok=-7c2OQ3m)
![A picture of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh hangs on a building of the Standing Committee of the General People's Congress, Saleh's party, in Sanaa, December 17, 2013. The building was damaged during protests and clashes in 2011. Two years after months of mass protests forced ex-Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to give up his 33-year rule that brought the country to the brink of civil war, many establishments still bear damages from the conflict. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi (YEMEN - Tags: POL](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/03/RTX16ML2.jpg/RTX16ML2.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=HVR4Jnec)
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![A vendor poses with images of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh (bottom) in Sanaa March 1, 2014. Western diplomats say Saleh and former Vice President Ali Salim Al-Beidh are top candidates of a blacklist by a newly created U.N. sanctions committee for Yemen that will impose asset freezes and travel bans on specific individuals who obstruct the country's political transition or commits human rights violations. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi (YEMEN - Tags: SOCIETY POLITICS) - RTR3FUWN](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/03/RTR3FUWN.jpg/RTR3FUWN.jpg?h=e92c5d5c&itok=QHGkRMwf)
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![A mourner sits during the funeral of assassinated Shi'ite leader Ahmad Sharafeddin in Sanaa January 27, 2014. Unknown assailants shot and killed Sharafeddin on January 21 while he was on his way to attend reconciliation talks in the Yemeni capital, officials at the talks said. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah (YEMEN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST RELIGION OBITUARY) - RTX17WSB](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/01/RTX17WSB.jpg/RTX17WSB.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=n5AYeGLQ)
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![Women walk by a mural of a flag of the Yemen Arab Republic from former North Yemen in Sanaa, December 24, 2013. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi (YEMEN - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY) - RTX16T8G](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/01/RTX16T8G.jpg/RTX16T8G.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=ZJPZrIAQ)
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![A boy walks past a graffiti depicting a grenade on a street in Sanaa January 9, 2014. The paint is part of a graffiti campaign against armed conflicts in Yemen. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah (YEMEN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY) - RTX177LM](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/01/RTX177LM.jpg/RTX177LM.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=2Ldi4Qoo)
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