Information provided by the World Jewish Congress on the arrest of six leaders of the Jewish community of Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, bas been forwarded by the U.S. State Department to the American Minister to Saudi Arabia and Yemen, it was reported here today by the Congress. The W.J.C. had appealed to the State Department to investigate the detention of six Jews, following the alleged discovery of the bodies of two Arab girls near a synagogue.
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