Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said the...
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said the government will do all it can to secure the release of two Australian aid workers, Diana Thomas and Peter Bunch, arrested in Afghanistan on August 6
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Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said the government will do all it can to secure the release of two Australian aid workers, Diana Thomas and Peter Bunch, arrested in Afghanistan on August 6.
Downer also dismissed allegations by the ruling Taleban that the two, workers for the Shelter Now International agency, were propagating Christianity.
"They may be Christian but they are not there to undermine Islam and spread Christianity, they are there to help deal with poverty, problems of poverty in Afghanistan," he added.
Under Taleban law anyone promoting a religion other than Islam faces the death penalty.
Downer also dismissed allegations by the ruling Taleban that the two, workers for the Shelter Now International agency, were propagating Christianity.
"They may be Christian but they are not there to undermine Islam and spread Christianity, they are there to help deal with poverty, problems of poverty in Afghanistan," he added.
Under Taleban law anyone promoting a religion other than Islam faces the death penalty.
— SOURCES
- (Sources: Radio Australia monitored by BBC, 07/08/2001)
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