Iran: Converts from Islam ordered to stop "Christian activities," threatened with apostasy trial
Posted by Robert on April 1, 2009 6:18 PM
But they just got probation. This time. Islamic Tolerance Alert from the Islamic Republic of Iran: "Iran: Three Converts Ordered To Stop ‘Christian Activities,’" from [1] Compass Direct, March 31 :
LOS ANGELES, March 31 (Compass Direct News) – Declaring three Iranian Christians guilty of cooperating with “anti-government movements,” a court in Shiraz on March 10 ordered the converts to discontinue Christian activities and stop propagating their faith.An Islamic Revolutionary Court judge handed an eight-month suspended prison sentence with a five-year probation to Seyed Allaedin Hussein, Homayoon Shokouhi, and Seyed Amir Hussein Bob-Annari. The judge said he would enforce their prison sentence and try them as “apostates,” or those who leave Islam, if they violate terms of their probation – including a ban on contacting one another.
A new penal code under consideration by the Iranian Parliament includes a bill that would require the death penalty for apostasy.
“The warning that they will be ‘arrested and tried as apostates’ if they continue their Christian activities is quite chilling,” said a regional analyst who requested anonymity....
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Article printed from Jihad Watch: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/04/iran-converts-from-islam-ordered-to-stop-christian-activities-threatened-with-apostasy-trial.html
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