Iran: Ten Christian converts arrested
Pastor Dale Morgan
Iran arrests converts to Christianity
*New law says any Muslim who decides to renounce Islam faces death penalty
Tehran, (AKI) - Ten Iranians who converted from Islam to Christianity in
recent months have been arrested in the southern city of Shiraz.
According to Goodarz, a spokesperson for the Iranian converts, more than
35 of them have been arrested since the beginning of the year. Goodarz
himself has taken refuge in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.
The new Majlis or Iranian parliament which met for the first time on
Tuesday will be discussing in the coming weeks proposed laws presented
by the government to reform the penal code.
Under the new law, anyone born to a Muslim father who decides to
renounce Islam and convert to another faith, faces the death penalty.
The punishment is currently absent from the Iranian penal code even
though in the past, dozens of Christian converts and followers of the
Bahai faith have been hanged.