By: Jamil al-Jadabi (almotamar.net) - SANA'A- Security authorities on Monday arrested three people charged with tearing up some 25 copies of the holy Quran in Banai Husheish district, north of Sana'a city.
Brigadier general Hamid al-Dharab of Sana'a governorate security department told almotamar.net that his department has on Saturday summoned Endowments' workers and preachers in three mosques at al-Esha village for questioning. "But they condemned the incident of tearing up copies of the holy Quran. So did prominent social figures of the village," he added.
According to al-Dharab, the three people who torn up the copies of the holy Quran are being detained for investigations. They were charged with pulling out posters stuck on the first and last pages of the copies. On the posters was written the phrase "Printed at President Saleh's expenses." He considered the incident as an attack against the nation's constitution [the holy Quran] and not against the President of the Republic.