omenala : DAILY SUN Monday, July 4 , 2011 Iran: Court overturns death sentence for christian pastor. Iran's supreme court has overturned a death sentence handed down to Yusef Nadakhani, a Christian pastor accused of apostasy for having converted from Islam, his lawyer told AFP on sunday, "The supreme court has annuled the death sentence and sent the case back to the court in Rasht(his hometown), asking the accused to repent," Mohammad Ali Dadkhah said. Nadarkhani, now 32 , converted from Islam to Christianity at the age of 19 and became a pastor of a small evangelical community called the church of Iran. He was arrested in October 2009 and condemned to death for apostasy under Iran's Islamic Sharia laws, which however allow for such verdicts to be overturned if the convicted person "repents" and renounces his conversion. After his conviction was upheld by an appeal court in Gilan province in September 2010 , Nadarkhani turned to the supreme court. His wife, who was initially sentenced to life imprisonment, was released on appeal.


benodic : @ poster so what does the moslems have to say about this report? i am all ears.


Hambolaj01 : Whao


omenala : This simply proves that there can be no freedom of worship when a society employs islamic law(sharia law). Lets face the truth, If northern nigerian states embrace sharia law a similar incident is bound to occur.