Quran Desecration among Issues to Be Discussed at 54th Session of UNHRC
Czech Republic's Ambassador to the UN, Vaclav Balek, told a news conference in Geneva that the session would be the longest of the Council.
Balek, who is the president of the council for 2023, said it will review the human rights situation in various countries and release 130 reports.
Asked by Anadolu if the session would discuss attacks on the Quran, he said the issue was discussed in a special meeting of the previous session last year.
“I believe the participants will review the matter during this session too,” he said, noting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk will bring it to the agenda.
In recent weeks, Quran desecrations in a number of European countries like Sweden and Denmark with government permission and police protection have drawn widespread anger and condemnations from the Muslim world.
The European countries allow the blasphemies to happen under the guise of the so-called freedom of speech despite wide condemnations from Muslim and non-Muslim states and even in the face of a UN Human Rights Council resolution adopted recently.
Source: Anadolu Agency
