World Report

Friday, October 11, 2002 | by

TRIPOLI (JTA)—Libya is giving a human rights prize to Frenchman Roger Garaudy, author of a 1995 book claiming the Holocaust never happened. Garaudy is among the winners of this year's Khadafy International Human Rights Prize, the official Libyan News Agency reported.

Pot found growing in Jewish cemetery

WARSAW (JTA)—The Warsaw Jewish community fired the caretaker of the Jewish cemetery after police destroyed a plot of marijuana growing in the vast graveyard.

According to sources within the community, police three weeks ago discovered and destroyed a number of cannabis plants in the cemetery.

This week, police interrogated the chair and vice chair of the Jewish community, who said it was the first they had heard about the incident. The community board decided to remove the caretaker as a disciplinary action, both for having allowed the cannabis to grow in the cemetery and for not having informed community officials of last month's police action.