THE CHRISTIAN POST: In a “positive development” Iran’s parliamentary committee has recommended to remove articles stipulating the death penalty for apostasy from the Islamic Penal Code Bill. The recommendation has been made by the Iranian Government’s Parliamentary Committee, a UK-based Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) reported.
Ali Shahrokhi of the Legal and Judicial Committee of the Parliament reportedly told the Iranian state news agency (IRNA) of this pronouncement according to a BBC Persian news service report on 23 June.
Mr Shahrokhi also stated that stoning was not ‘in the interest of the regime’. He told IRNA that “Islam has set a strict set of conditions for the implementation of punishments such as stoning, that they can rarely be proven. Hence the legal and judicial commission members concluded that some of these laws are unnecessary to mention.” >>> Robert Williams, Christian Post Correspondent | Saturday, June 27, 2009
