Officials in Yemen rejected the candidacy of a Jewish man who wanted to run in the nation’s Feb. 20 municipal elections, according to Agence France-Presse. Yemen’s election committee “rejected Ezer Ibrahim’s application because he is a Jew, and municipal law stipulates that election candidates should be Muslims,” a committee official told the French news agency.
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