Apostasy cannot be considered as a crime in today's world.

This is Mauritania's first death sentence for apostasy since independence in 1960.

We have not accused anyone of apostasy, nor is our goal to cleanse the world.

The complainant says that his fellow students discovered his apostasy in December 1998 and made serious threats against him thereafter.

6.7 The second ground put forward by the complainant for his arrest has to do with his apostasy in 1996.

ISIS considers the veneration of saints apostasy and all those outside their definition of their narrow version of Islam as heretics.

His address was posted on a social media site, and clerics began calling for him to be executed, or tried for apostasy.

The text of the bill would add, establishing websites and weblogs promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy, to the list of crimes punishable by death.

The strange thing about laws against apostasy and blasphemy is that most of the people who fall foul of them are neither apostates nor intentional blasphemers.

4.11 Even if the allegations of apostasy were credible, they would not necessarily mean that the complainant would be in danger of being tortured if sent home to Pakistan.

Areas captured by the fanatic group which insists on wiping out all sites of heresy and apostasy include the Cradle of Civilisation, an area rich in history since ancient times.

In addition, the committee fought to break the taboo on apostasy in the Muslim world as well as started a debate on the violation of women's rights in Islamic societies.

Although this gap endangers the future of Latin American democracy, many Latin American leaders consider it apostasy to admit that living standards are little better today than they were during the era of dictators.

Bazri warns We should do our best to stop members of parliament from approving this draft bill. Tomorrow it will be too late. It is easy to accuse a blogger of apostasy and corruption.

Saudi Arabia overturned the death sentence of Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh, accused of apostasy and other blasphemy related offenses which he denies, to eight years imprisonment and 800 lashes, announced his lawyer via Twitter today.

He maintains, however, that his conversion to Islam was not known about outside the confines of the University of Lahore, which only discovered his apostasy in December 1998 and, thus, only informed the police sometime thereafter.

The 28 year old man appears to be yet another victim of a repressive government in a majority Muslim country that deploys apostasy and blasphemy pretexts to crack down on those who call for reforms or speak out on political issues.

In Tunisia, which does not have laws that criminalize blasphemy or apostasy, Internet users Jabeur Mejri and Ghazi Beji were sentenced in 2012 to seven and half years in prison over the publication of Prophet Muhammad cartoons on the web.

4.10 The State party finds the importance which the complainant attaches to apostasy surprising, particularly since he did not make the claim until 26 September 2002 when he requested a review of the initial decision by the Swiss Asylum Review Commission.

Ever since occupying swaths of Iraq and Syria, ISIS has been on a rampage obliterating all aspects of apostasy it comes across, destroying ancient sites among them Nineveh, Nimrud and Hatra, which are all designated or nominated to become World Heritage Sites by UNESCO.

The complainant explains the omission in his application for review partly by saying that he was ashamed, partly by saying that he feared the consequences of his apostasy, and lastly by saying that he did not realize the importance of the point until after the Commission handed down its decision on 5 August 2002.