SANAA (Reuters) - When Sara Ahmed joined a protest in November to demand the resignation of Yemen's president, she and the other women marched at the very front of the crowd. But no sooner had they set off through the capital than they were shepherded towards the back.
"On that day I realized we had two fights," said Ahmed, a 24-year-old sociology student and women's rights advocate, who took part in some of the first protests in Yemen last year that helped oust President Ali Abdullah Saleh from office.
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