SHIRAZ, Iran — Declaring three Iranian Christians guilty of cooperating with “anti-government movements” March 10, a court in Shiraz ordered the converts to discontinue Christian activities and stop propagating their faith.
An Islamic Revolutionary Court judge handed an eight-month suspended prison sentence with a five-year probation to Seyed Allaedin Hussein, Homayoon Shokouhi and Seyed Amir Hussein Bob-Annari.
The judge said he would enforce their prison sentence and try them as apostates, or those who leave Islam, if they violate terms of their probation — including a ban on contacting one another.
A new penal code under consideration by the Iranian Parliament includes a bill that would require the death penalty for apostasy.
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