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Today marks the anniversary of the beginning of daily protests in Yemen’s capital of Sana’a. A Human Rights Watch report released Wednesday, called “No Safe Places: Yemen’s Crackdown on Protests in Taizz,” notes that nationwide the estimated death toll from the government response to pro-democracy demonstrations this past year has been 270 people. We can add to that death toll now. Since then, two protesters have been killed when an election boycott rally in Dalea province was fired upon.

A presidential election is planned in Yemen for later this month, although there is only one candidate.

In the top photo above, the sign with the bloody handprint reads: “This is enough.” Below, the little girls’ hands read “Leave!”

Also: Iona Craig, a Sana’a-based freelance journalist, has noted this on her Tumblr, posting an excellent video slideshow of her photographic work from the protests over the past year. Check it out.

Photos: AFP, AP, AP.