Praise for British Foreign Secretary’s condemnation of Iran apostasy bill

http://www.religiousintelligence.co.uk/news/?NewsID=3021

[Religious Intelligence] 9 Oct 2008--The British Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary, Rt Hon David Miliband, MP, has condemned a draft bill currently making its way through the Iranian Parliament, which would codify the death penalty for apostasy. His views have been welcomed by the CSW human rights group.

David Miliband commented yesterday that he “deplore[d] the way in which the Iranian Parliament is… now discussing a draft penal code that would set out a mandatory death sentence for the crime, quote unquote, of apostasy.” He went on to say that “If adopted, [the legislation] would violate the right to freedom of religion, which is also an important basis of any civilised society.”