Hanged for being a Christian in Iran

[TexAG]

Hanged for being a Christian in Iran - Telegraph


Eighteen years ago, Rashin Soodmand's father was hanged in Iran for converting to Christianity. Now her brother is in a Mashad jail, and expects to be executed under new religious laws brought in this summer.

The right to freedom of religion is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and in the European Convention of Human Rights. It is even enshrined as Article 23 of Iran's own constitution, which states that no one may be molested simply for his beliefs.And yet few politicians or clerics in Iran see any contradiction between a law mandating the death penalty for changing religion and Iran's constitution. There has been no public protest in Iran against it.
David Miliband, Britain's Foreign Secretary, stands out as one of the few politicians from any Western country who has put on record his opposition to making apostasy a crime punishable by death. The protest from the EU has been distinctly muted; meanwhile, Germany, Iran's largest foreign trading partner, has just increased its business deals with Iran by more than half. Characteristically, the United Nations has said nothing.
It is a sign of how little interest there is in Iran's intention to launch a campaign of religious persecution that its parliamentary vote has still not been reported in the mainstream media.
For one woman living in London, however, the Iranian parliamentary vote cannot be brushed aside. Rashin Soodmand is a 29-year-old Iranian Christian. Her father, Hossein Soodmand, was the last man to be executed in Iran for apostasy, the "crime" of abandoning one's religion. He had converted from Islam to Christianity in 1960, when he was 13 years old. Thirty years later, he was hanged by the Iranian authorities for that decision.
Today, Rashin's brother, Ramtin, is also held in a prison cell in Mashad, Iran's holiest city. He was arrested on August 21. He has not been charged but he is a Christian. And Rashin fears that, just as her father was the last man to be executed for apostasy in Iran, her brother may become one of the first to be killed under Iran's new law.

[angelcounty]

Unbelievable but i am sometimes victimise for being a muslim given that islam is the foundation of my family sometimes.

[Myles_per_hour]

Iran is a sick society that last year hanged two teenagers for being gay. Nothing surprises me about that despotic regime anymore.

[Mujaahid]

Hanged for being a Christian in Iran - Telegraph


Eighteen years ago, Rashin Soodmand's father was hanged in Iran for converting to Christianity. Now her brother is in a Mashad jail, and expects to be executed under new religious laws brought in this summer.

The right to freedom of religion is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and in the European Convention of Human Rights. It is even enshrined as Article 23 of Iran's own constitution, which states that no one may be molested simply for his beliefs.And yet few politicians or clerics in Iran see any contradiction between a law mandating the death penalty for changing religion and Iran's constitution. There has been no public protest in Iran against it.
David Miliband, Britain's Foreign Secretary, stands out as one of the few politicians from any Western country who has put on record his opposition to making apostasy a crime punishable by death. The protest from the EU has been distinctly muted; meanwhile, Germany, Iran's largest foreign trading partner, has just increased its business deals with Iran by more than half. Characteristically, the United Nations has said nothing.
It is a sign of how little interest there is in Iran's intention to launch a campaign of religious persecution that its parliamentary vote has still not been reported in the mainstream media.
For one woman living in London, however, the Iranian parliamentary vote cannot be brushed aside. Rashin Soodmand is a 29-year-old Iranian Christian. Her father, Hossein Soodmand, was the last man to be executed in Iran for apostasy, the "crime" of abandoning one's religion. He had converted from Islam to Christianity in 1960, when he was 13 years old. Thirty years later, he was hanged by the Iranian authorities for that decision.
Today, Rashin's brother, Ramtin, is also held in a prison cell in Mashad, Iran's holiest city. He was arrested on August 21. He has not been charged but he is a Christian. And Rashin fears that, just as her father was the last man to be executed for apostasy in Iran, her brother may become one of the first to be killed under Iran's new law.

Load of twaddle. In the absence of an impartial account this is simply another anti-Iran thread.

[angelcounty]

Iran is a sick society that last year hanged two teenagers for being gay. Nothing surprises me about that despotic regime anymore.

They should sometime moved to a society that allows them to be honest and while they reside in those free society they should not undermined the straight peoples life, because they're sometimes irritating by not keeping to themself and continue to look for trouble one ways or the other.

[CelticAtheist]

Load of twaddle. In the absence of an impartial account this is simply another anti-Iran thread.

I suppose you'd only find Iranian state television an impartial account of Iran, right?

[Andrew49]

Mujaahid writes:

Load of twaddle. In the absence of an impartial account this is simply another anti-Iran thread.

And here was me thinking that denial was a river in Egypt!

[Aindriu]

Load of twaddle. In the absence of an impartial account this is simply another anti-Iran thread.

Whose account would you consider to be impartial? The Ayatollah perhaps?

[Clanrickard]

Iran is a sick society that last year hanged two teenagers for being gay. Nothing surprises me about that despotic regime anymore.

I expect the Irish Council Of Imams will be sending a letter of protest to the Iranian Embassy it being a religon of peace and all that. Won't they?

[Aindriu]

I expect the Irish Council Of Imams will be sending a letter of protest to the Iranian Embassy it being a religon of peace and all that. Won't they?

Meanwhile, over in the field, a squadron of pink pigs is warming up for takeoff.