I am looking for a nice counterexample that for a UFD $R$ and $\mathfrak p\subset R$ a prime ideal, $R/\mathfrak p$ is not always a UFD as well.
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Pick any finitely generated domain which is not a UDF and write it as a quotient of $\mathbb Z[X_1,\dots,X_n]$. The ideal will be prime.

Mariano Suárez-Álvarez
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