Yemen's capital Sana'a marked the third anniversary of the 11th February revolution which ousted the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
In response to a call from the organizational committee of the youth revolution and the council of the revolutionary youth, participants in the celebration on Tuesday gathered in the western sixtieth street which was an iconic place for the popular uprising on Fridays during 2012 and 2011.
They chanted slogans calling for completing the uprising until all its goals are achieved, release of all detainees, holding trials for members of the former regime and restoring public funds stolen by the former regime.
Vice president of the general council of the detainees Jamal Al-Dhufairi delivered a speech written by the detainee Ibrahim Al-Hamadi saluting the strive of the martyred, wounded and detained heroes of the revolution.
He called for the release of the detainees.
"We are marking the anniversary of the revolution inside detention facilities and while we are on a hunger strike. We are refusing to eat, drink and use medicines until we die," the speech said.
"The 11th February revolution rose against corruption and tyranny and to redress grievances and try those involved in crimes. We took to the streets to establish a modern civil state. We sacrificed our souls, provided convoys of martyrs; some of us were abducted and tortured, but we did not care about what happened to us because we willingly revolted," Al-Hamadi said in his speech which was delivered by Al-Dhufairi.
"But regrettably after goals of the revolution were achieved, we were transferred from forced detention centres to central prisons," he added.
"It is sad that the anniversary of the revolution passes while we are still behind the bars while criminals are free and ruining the country's properties," he said, affirming they will continue the hunger strike until they get released.
The detainees' speech urged to hold protests to demand firing the attorney general Ali Al-Awash who had been appointed by former president and trying abductors and torturers of detainees because of their different opinions.
Hundreds of balloons with colors of Yemen's flag were released into the air at the event.
Yemeni laureate activist Tawakkol Karman chanted slogans affirming the revolution is peaceful and aimed at building a civil state, describing what happened on 11th February as not an ordinary event in the history of the mankind.
She addressed the attendees: "You have made a great revolution, by all accounts".
"To all the free people, you have a great revolution by all accounts after our country was dying and on the edge of an abyss until we thought everything was falling from the far north to the far south," she said.
Karman sent messages first to president Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi saying, "You derive your legitimacy from your implementation of the requirements of the transitional period completely".
In her message to the Joint Meeting Parties, she said: "You signed for the impunity of the former regime and Saleh is now leading a counterrevolution. We demand you to achieve the demands of the people".
She also sent a message to the armed Houthi group saying, "The revolution erupted while you were in prisons and a banned group. The revolution did you a favor," calling on the group to drop their weapons and shift into a political party.
"Ali Saleh is a criminal against humanity obstructing the transitional period and is revenging on his people," she said in her message to the United Nations Security Council, urging the international community to approve sanctions on all transition's obstructionists in accordance with the UN's seventh chapter.
"We have to replace the power of factions and influential figures with the power of the state and the power of a militia with the power of the state. We need a strong state that can't let any criminal go unpunished, a state that should be respected and with which no criminal or corrupt person will go unpunished," she added.
She called for a law banning weapons and handing weapons of armed groups and outlaws to the state within six months. "Any group keeps its weapons after this period should be considered an outlaw and banned. And this should not be understood as annoyance of a particular group but a very important measure to protect the people".
A speech on behalf of the martyrs and the wounded was delivered by politics professor in Sanaa University Mohammed Al-Dhahiry who was injured during the revolution. The speech talked about the spatial significance of the gathering place as a symbol reminding the people with sacrifices of the youth since the start of the revolution and the indication of the 11th revolutionary saying that 11th February reminds the people with the heroic epic during the siege of Sanaa in late 1960s.
"Our revolution is incomplete. It needs to bolster and achieve its goals and complete its demands. Moreover, it needs to be cared of not propagandas, intrepidity not distraction and it calls for change not falsification," the speech said, adding that free revolutions don't exist on the earth because revolutions need struggle and sacrifices.
Two poems by poets Fuad Al-Himyari and Omar Al-Nihmi were delivered at the event glorifying the sacrifices of the youth to make the peaceful revolution of the youth a success.
The organizational committee of the youth revolution called in a statement for forming a national and popular wide bloc to face any attempt to obstruct the change path and take the country back to the past.
It called for finishing the restructuring of the armed and security forces and building them in accordance with national standards, removing all privileges given beyond the law in economic sectors because they are a violation of the people's resources and wealth, and for rallying next Friday to demand the release of detainees.