A human rights documentation NGO's legal analysis of how Iran prosecutes apostasy through constitutional and Sharia provisions despite the Islamic Penal Code naming no apostasy offense of its own.
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Reliability tier 2: a human rights documentation nonprofit's own legal analysis, informed advocacy research rather than a government or peer reviewed academic source. NotesA human rights documentation NGO's legal analysis explaining that Iran's 2013 Islamic Penal Code does not itself define apostasy as a crime, but that Article 220 of the Code directs judges to Article 167 of the Constitution, which requires a ruling from authoritative Islamic sources and fatwa where the Code is silent, letting courts impose the death penalty for apostasy under Sharia despite its absence from the written statute. Consulted directly.
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PublisherIran Human Rights Documentation Center
Publication Year2014
URLhttps://iranhrdc.org/apostasy-in-the-islamic-republic-of-iran/
Source TypeReport
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- Countries, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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