SANAA, Yemen
An Anadolu Agency journalist was manhandled and had his camera broken during a police operation amid anti-government protests in Yemen on Tuesday.
Abdullah Homran was covering street demonstrations being held by Shiite Houthi protesters in the capital, Sanaa.
Khomran was pushed to the ground and had his camera broken by police officers who intervened to stop protesters marching towards the country's prime ministry office.
"I was thrown down and beaten during the row between police and the protesters," said the cameraman.
Cameras belonging to many other press members and journalists were also damaged during the clashes.
The Shiite group has recently staged a series of massive protests in Sanaa to demand the dismissal of the government and the reinstatement of slashed fuel subsidies.
Houthi protesters marched on the cabinet headquarters one day after group leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi called on supporters to step up anti-government rallies in Sanaa's Tagyeer Square.
In a separate incident last month, AA journalist Bilgin Sasmaz was threatened, manhandled and detained by police while covering protests in the U.S. city of Ferguson.
Yemen has been dogged by unrest since a popular uprising which began in 2011 ousted longstanding president Ali Abdullah Saleh a year later.
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