Abdul Rahman (convert)

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Abdul Rahman (* 1965 in Kabul , Afghanistan ) is an Afghan who in his home country because of the waste from Islam has been accused. If convicted, he would face the death penalty . The charges were referred back to the prosecution on March 26, 2006 for formal errors. The man threatened with the death penalty was released from prison on March 28. Today he lives in asylum in Italy .

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

background

The affair brought to the fore a contradiction in the Afghan constitution, which guarantees religious freedom but is also based on Sharia . This led to an international scandal: The German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier reminded the government in Kabul of the International Convention on Human Rights , which the country had signed. US and German politicians therefore called for a change in the relevant Afghan laws. Some politicians questioned the continued deployment of the Federal Armed Forces in Afghanistan, to which the Afghan Minister of Economic Affairs, Amin Farhang, replied that this bordered on blackmail. Meanwhile , Kabul Supreme Court spokesman Wakil Omari said Rahman could be declared mentally disturbed and released. While the prosecutor insisted on the verdict, the judge put hope in another solution: “We will ask him if he has changed his mind about being a Christian . But if so, we will forgive him, because Islam is a tolerant religion. "Despite impending death Urteiles Rahman was not willing to Islam zurückzu convert .

On March 26, the responsible judge, Ansarullah Mawlavizada, stated : "The case has been referred to the prosecutor's office due to some errors and inadequacies, both technical and legal."

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

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  1. ↑ Background Report of media thinking , April 4, 2006
  2. ↑ religious freedom: politicians uphold threatened Christians of the FAZ , 22. March 2006
  3. ↑ Christ faces the death penalty in Afghanistan , livenet.ch, March 30, 2006
  4. ^ Report from Deutsche Welle , March 22, 2006
  5. ↑ a b report from the taz , March 22, 2006
  6. ^ Announcement of the world March 23, 2006

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personal data
SURNAME Rahman, Abdul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Afghan convert
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Kabul , Afghanistan