File talk:States with death penalty for apostasy.svg

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There isn't any death penalty for apostasy inside Iranian law (official page: rc.majlis.ir), or anything regarding apostasy at all. Map is based on yellow media rubbish. --MehrdadFR (talk) 07:43, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

In short: there's nothing regarding apostasy or "ارتداد" inside Iranian criminal law. That's not a sole problem here, secular Syria is also labeled as one who has capital punishment for apostasy. --MehrdadFR (talk) 02:17, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

That is correct, see: US Library of Congress report. Doctore (talk) 09:42, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

"The report tracks, among other things, which countries have laws explicitly targeting atheists. There are not many, but the states that forbid non-religiousness – typically as part of "anti-blasphemy" legislation – include seven nations where atheism is punishable by death. All seven establish Islam as the state religion. Though that list includes some dictatorships, the country that appears to most frequently condemn atheists to death for their beliefs is actually a democracy, if a frail one: Pakistan. Others include Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Sudan, the West African state of Mauritania, and the Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean. These countries are colored red on the above map." - Washington Post

"Iranian atheist begs: 'Don't send me back home ... I'll be killed'" - The Herald

"Sharia law, which covers only Muslims unless incorporated into national law, assumes people are born into their parents’ religion. Thus ex-Muslim atheists are guilty of apostasy—a hudud crime against God, like adultery and drinking alcohol. Potential sanctions can be severe: eight states, including Iran, Saudi Arabia, Mauritania and Sudan have the death penalty on their statute books for such offences." - The Economist

"A first survey of 60 countries last year showed just seven where death, often by public beheading, is the punishment for either blasphemy or apostasy - renouncing belief or switching to another religion which is also protected under U.N. accords. But this year's more comprehensive study showed six more, bringing the full list to Afghanistan, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. - Reuters

Iran’s current Penal Code, which was approved by the country’s Guardian Council on January 18, 2012, 28 does not include provisions criminalizing apostasy. However, a draft form of the Code containing several provisions on apostasy had been approved by the Iranian Parliament in principal on September 9, 2008, but was not subsequently adopted. While Iranian law does not provide for the death penalty for apostasy, the courts can hand down that punishment, and have done so in previous years, based on their interpretation of Sharia’a law and fatwas (legal opinions or decrees issued by Islamic religious leaders). In September 2012, Christian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani was acquitted of charges of apostasy brought against him in 2010 that carried the death sentence. Laws Criminalizing Apostasy in Selected Jurisdictions - The Law Library of Congress (your own source)

Chronus (talk) 03:15, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Yellow journalism and political propaganda are not reliable sources and they can be easily refuted by official website from Iranian parliament.

Beside it, there are Iranian scholarly publications which confirm there isn't any penalty for apostasy: The legislator of Islamic republic of Iran has not determined directly a punishment for the offense of apostasy (irtidad) in any Articles or notes and has been silent. This purposeful silence implies that the legislator is not inclined toward criminalization of apostasy (irtidad). According to the Islamic traditions and infallible sayings, apostasy is a capital crime and sin but we will prove in this essay that the practical sirat ahl-al bayt and the Imami jurisprudents have been to tolerate apostates and forgive them for some advantages which it implies that the punishment of apostasy has been set aside. (work: "The crime of apostasy (Irtidad) in the Islamic traditions (a hadith)" by Muhaqqiq Damad Seyyed Mustafa, Musavifar Sayyed Muhsen, Criminal Law Doctrines, fall 2014 / winter 2015, n. 8, p. 3-24

...and regarding speculation about Nadarkhani: An Iranian judiciary official has denied reports that Youssef Nadar-Khani, an Iranian citizen, has been sentenced to death for converting to Christianity Press TV reports. “Youssef Nadar-Khani has been charged with a crime and is in a prison based on an arrest warrant issued against him,” Gilan Province Judiciary Chief Mohammad-Javad Heshmati said on Wednesday. “There has been no execution order. No conviction at all has been issued yet and it is up to the court to finally decide the verdict after studying his case,” he added. On Saturday, Deputy Governor of Gilan Province Ali Rezvani said Nadar-Khani is guilty of security charges and running a brothel but his verdict has not been finalized. Western media have manipulated the case of Nadar-Khani, a convicted rapist and extortionist in Gilan Province, to wage an anti-Iran publicity campaign by falsely claiming that his criminal conviction his conversion to Christianity and acting as a 'priest.' Iran has firmly refuted Western allegations of violating human rights, insisting that Nadar-Khani has a history of committing violent crimes and that he has never received a death penalty for his religious preference. (media: Press TV, Iranian official source)

--MehrdadFR (talk) 06:18, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Inaccuracies regarding the map and its source material.

The alleged source states that countries that have a death penalty for apostasy as of 2007 are Afghanistan, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan are not mentioned in the article but are shown to be countries which have a death penalty in place for apostasy while Malaysia and the Maldives are mentioned in the article despite not being highlighted in black on the map. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.141.233.163 (talk • contribs)

Some of those countries have been removed. I do not think there are any more inaccuracies based on many sources which confirm countries that have a death penalty. MonsterHunter32 (talk) 12:15, 24 July 2019 (UTC)