Yemen's Parliament Investigating Handling of Qur'an Desecration Complaints

Yemen Post reported today that Yemen's Parliament has set up a special committee to investigate what procedures the Interior Ministry follows when it receives a report charging desecration of the Qur'an. The action comes after a group of private citizens took matters into their own hands when police did not respond to a complaint charging a man with tearing and stepping on a copy of the Qur'an. Last Tuesday, a group of private citizens gathered from a number of mosques after morning prayers and went to the house of the alleged offender where they broke in, burned the furniture inside as well as two cars parked at the house.