Washington, May 4 (RHC)-- The United States has returned thousands of ancient artifacts looted from Iraq and illegally acquired by the U.S.-based Christian craft chain store Hobby Lobby.
The handover of 3,800 artifacts to Iraq’s ambassador in Washington came nearly a year after Hobby Lobby agreed to pay a $3 million fine, after it spent over $1.5 million in 2010 to purchase the smuggled artifacts from a dealer based in the United Arab Emirates. The sales violated a ban on the sale of Iraqi cultural artifacts in place since 2004.
Hobby Lobby’s owners are conservative Christians who recently opened a Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. In 2014, Hobby Lobby won a landmark decision at the Supreme Court, which ruled that private companies that claim religious objections can refuse to provide birth control coverage to employees.
U.S. returns looted Iraqi artifacts acquired by Hobby Lobby

Matérias relacionadas
Comentários
Deixe um comentário
Todos os campos são requeridosMais vistas
- Marine Le Pen é condenada à prisão e declarada inelegível
- Ministro das Relações Exteriores de Cuba denuncia sequestro de migrantes como ato atroz
- Seminário internacional sobre migração e direitos humanos na Venezuela
- Ministro das Relações Exteriores denuncia políticos anti-cubanos como principais responsáveis pelas deportações em massa
- Argentinos se preparam para novos protestos contra o governo