SANA'A January 10.2023 (Saba) - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemned the French magazine Charlie Hebdo's abuse of Islamic religious figures and symbols every now and then by publishing offensive cartoons, the latest is the publication of indecent drawings of an Islamic figure represented by a person, Ayatollah Allah Ali Khamenei, who is a global Islamic reference.
In a statement issued Tuesday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that the magazine Charlie Hebdo is following in the same footsteps as the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which published offensive drawings of Islam, provoking disagreements, hatred and hostility between peoples and religions.
The ministry noted that this would have a negative impact on the European continent, especially within France. Call upon the French Government to assume its responsibility not to exploit the right to expression, freedom of opinion and dissemination in abuse of religious personalities and sanctities, and away from double standards in the use of freedom values.
The statement stressed that the concepts of personal freedom and freedom of expression and publication are at stake. Political differences between the Islamic Republic of Iran and a number of Western countries on Iran's nuclear file should not be linked to include the limit of encroachment on national and religious symbols.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged the French and European Governments to take serious steps to prevent the misuse of free speech concepts to spread seeds of sedition, hatred and wars.
Called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to condemn the "Charlie Hebdo" magazine and to begin discussing how to protect human rights values and freedom from abuse for political and other reasons is one of the most important motives for the establishment of the Human Rights Council in 2005.
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resource : Saba
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