STORY: Rally held in Yemen's capital to protest against Quran desecration in Sweden, Denmark
DATELINE: July 25, 2023
LENGTH: 00:00:52
LOCATION: Sanaa
CATEGORY: POLITICS
 
SHOTLIST:
1. various of Yemenis participating in a rally to protest against the desecration of copies of Quran in Denmark and Sweden
 
STORYLINE:
 
Thousands of Yemenis rallied in the rebel-held capital Sanaa on Monday to condemn the desecration of copies of the Islamic holy book Quran in Sweden and Denmark.
 
The protesters, carrying banners and chanting slogans, called for a boycott of Swedish and Danish goods and for the governments of those countries to apologize to Muslims. The protesters also accused the West of harboring a "hatred" of Islam and Muslims.
 
Earlier on Monday, two protesters from the far-right Danish group of Danske Patrioter set fire to a copy of the Quran in front of the Iraqi embassy in Copenhagen, where it held a similar demonstration on July 21 in protest against the Iraqis' storming of the Swedish embassy in Baghdad.
 
Hundreds of angry protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad on July 20. They set fire to the building in protest against the desecration of the Quran and the Iraqi flag in the Swedish capital of Stockholm.
 
Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Sanaa.
(XHTV)