Abdul Rahman (convert)

Abdul Rahman ( b. 1965 in Kabul, Afghanistan) is an Afghan who was indicted in his home country for renouncing Islam. If convicted, he would have threatened the death penalty. The prosecution case was remanded on March 26, 2006 due to form errors to the prosecutor. The death penalty from the Endangered was released from prison on March 28. Today he lives in Italy in the asylum.

Abdul Rahman converted in 1990 as an employee of a Christian aid organization in Pakistan to Christianity. In 1993 he moved to Germany. In Passau and Nuremberg he applied unsuccessfully for asylum in the spring of 2000. After the fall of the Taliban in 2002, he returned to Afghanistan back. In February 2006 he was arrested after his father had reported his conversion to Christianity of the police and a Bible had been discovered with him. Even earlier his wife had divorced him because of the conversion. The couple has two daughters.

Background

The affair drew a contradiction of the Afghan Constitution to the fore, although freedom of religion guaranteed, but also has the Shari'a as a basis. This led to an international scandal: The German Foreign Minister Frank -Walter Steinmeier called the Kabul government to the International Convention on Human Rights, which had signed the country. Therefore, U.S. and German politicians called for an amendment to the relevant Afghan laws. Some politician questioned the further Bundeswehr mission in Afghanistan in question, after which the Afghan Economy Minister Amin Farhang said, this borders on extortion. The spokesman of the Supreme Court in Kabul, Wakil Omari, however, stated that Rahman could be declared mentally disturbed and set free. While the prosecutor insisted on the judgment, the judge put hope in a different solution: "We will ask him if he has his opinion, to be a Christian changed. If so, we will forgive him, because Islam is a tolerant religion. "Despite impending death sentence, however, Rahman was not willing to reconvert to Islam.

On March 26, the judge Ansarullah Mawlavizada said: " The case was rejected both technical and legal nature of the prosecutor's office due to some errors and shortcomings ."

March 29, 2006 Rahman arrived in Italy, where he was granted asylum.

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