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Yemen: No Religious Insults

Filed under: Donors, UN, Religious — by Jane Novak at 8:28 pm on Thursday, October 2, 2008

oh goody, doe this mean that Christians in Yemen might get equal rights?

Yemen calls for legislations banning insulting religious figures

NEW YORK, Sep. 29 (Saba)- Yemen called on Monday the UN General Assembly to adopt decisions to protect religious figures and to criminalize attacks on sacred properties.

That was mentioned in Yemen speech delivered by Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi in the 63rd round of the UN General Assembly which is currently held in New York.

Al-Qirbi talked about Yemen’s efforts in confronting terrorism and thwarting a number of terrorist acts such the last terror attack that targeted the US embassy in Sana’a.

He expressed hope that international condemnations of that attack is translated on reality in the form of support to help Yemen accelerate human development and confront poverty challenges.

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