AFP :
Iran's supreme court has overturned a death sentence handed down to Yusef Nadarkhani, a Christian pastor accused of apostasy for having converted from Islam, his lawyer told AFP on Sunday.
“The supreme court has annulled the death sentence and sent the case back to the court in Rasht (his hometown), asking the accused to repent," Mohammad Ali Dadkhah said.
Nadarkhani, now 32, converted from Islam to Christianity at the age of 19 and became a pastor of a small evangelical community called the Church of Iran.
He was arrested in October 2009 and condemned to death for apostasy under Iran's Islamic Sharia laws, which however allow for such verdicts to be overturned if the convicted person "repents" and renounces his conversion.
After his conviction was upheld by an appeal court in Gilan province in September 2010, Nadarkhani turned to the supreme court. His wife, who was initially sentenced to life imprisonment, was released on appeal.
The lawyer said the verdict had been read out to him on the telephone and that he needed to travel to Rasht, where Nadarkhani is being held, to see the ruling for himself.
Dadkhah said he himself was sentenced on Sunday by a Tehran court to nine years in jail and a 10-year ban on practicing law or teaching at university for "actions and propaganda against the Islamic regime.’
The lawyer said he had been criticised for having cooperated with the Centre for the Defence of Human Rights, an organisation founded by Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi, as well as for giving interviews to foreign radio stations.
"I have 20 days to lodge an appeal," he said.
لغو حکم اعدام يوسف ندرخاني، نوکيش مسيحي، به شرط توبه
به گزارش خبرگزاري فرانسه، محمد علي دادخواه، وکيل دادگستري به اين خبرگزاري گفته است که ديوان عالي ضمن ابطال حکم اعدام يوسف ندرخاني، کشيش نوکيش مسيحي، و ارجاع دوباره پرونده به دادگاه رشت، از آقاي ندرخواني درخواست کرده تا از مسيحيت توبه کند.
آقاي دادخواه به اين خبرگزاري گفته است که از طريق تماس تلفني از صدور اين حکم مطلع شده و قصد دارد براي اطمينان خاطر به رشت، محل نگهداري آقاي ندرخاني، سفر کند.
کمپين بينالمللي حقوق بشر در ايران نيز به نقل از محمد علي دادخواه نوشته است که حکم دادگاه بدوي روز سهشنبه، هفتم تيرماه از سوي ديوان عالي کشور در قم به شرط توبه آقاي ندرخاني، نقض شده است.
آقاي دادخواه تأکيد کرده که به موجب اين حکم اگر آقاي ندرخاني توبه نکند، پرونده بار ديگر در دادگاه رشت به جريان خواهد افتاد.
يوسف ندرخاني که مدتها پيش و در سن ۱۹ سالگي از دين اسلام خارج شده و به مسيحيت روي آورده، تا پيش از بازداشت، کشيش جماعتي از مسيحيان اهل رشت بود که تعدادشان به نوشته اين کمپين به ۴۰۰ تن ميرسيد.
آقاي ندرخاني پس از آنکه شهريورماه ۸۹ بازداشت شد، به خروج از اسلام، تبليغ مسيحيت و در نهايت ارتداد متهم و به اعدام محکوم شد.
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