Definitely consistent with your messages calling for Christians to be executed and anyone who disagrees - even just in words - with your what-ever-it-is theocratic government that you want installed in this country to be imprisoned or killed.
US human rights group says Youcef Nadarkhani is in great danger
Youcef Nadarkhani, the Iranian Christian pastor sentenced to death for apostasy, is to be hanged “imminently”, an American human rights group is reporting.
The American Center for Law and Justice has been informed by contacts inside the Islamic republic that an execution order has been issued for Mr Nadarkhani, who has refused to recant his Christian faith and return to Islam.
Jordan Sekulow, executive director for the American Center for Law and Justice, told American news site msnbc.com yesterday evening that “At this point, we can confirm that he is still alive,” but that “We know that the head of Iran’s judiciary, Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, must approve publicly held executions, but only a small percentage of executions are held in public — most executions in Iran are conducted in secret,” he said. “We are calling on the Iranian government to release the pastor immediately.”
Mr Nadarkhani, a 34-year-old father of two, was arrested and sentenced to death in Iran’s northern city of Rasht in 2009.
An appeals court upheld his sentence last year after he refused to reconvert to Islam, after he had been given three chances to recant. A member of the Protestant evangelical Church of Iran, Mr Nadarkhani was never formally a Muslim but came from a Muslim background.
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70 Christians arrested in Iran
Catholic World News - January 06, 2011
Iranian authorities have arrested 70 evangelical Christians in recent weeks.
“The leaders of this movement have been arrested in Tehran province and more will be arrested in the near future,” said provincial governor Morteza Tamaddon. “Just like the Taliban … who have inserted themselves into Islam like a parasite, they have crafted a movement with Britain’s backing in the name of Christianity,” he said. “But their conspiracy was unveiled quickly and the first blows were delivered to them.”
Tamaddon denounced the Christians as missionaries engaged in a “cultural onslaught” against the Islamic state.
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