{"id":7059,"date":"2008-09-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/09\/23\/iran-apostasy-bill-likely-to-become-law\/"},"modified":"2008-09-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T12:00:00","slug":"iran-apostasy-bill-likely-to-become-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/09\/23\/iran-apostasy-bill-likely-to-become-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Apostasy Bill Likely To Become Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\">Special to Compass Direct News<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, September 24, 2008: The Iranian government is proceeding with a bill that will make &#8220;apostasy,&#8221; or leaving Islam, a capital crime.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 9 the Iranian parliament approved a new penal code by a vote of 196-7 calling for a mandatory death sentence for apostates, or those who leave Islam. The Baha&#8217;i community of Iran is the most likely to be affected by this decision.<\/p>\n<p>The bill still has to make its way through Iran&#8217;s policy-making process before it becomes law. Parliament is reviewing it article by article, after which it will be sent to Iran&#8217;s most influential body, the Guardian Council, which will rule on it.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special to Compass Direct News LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, September 24, 2008: The Iranian government is proceeding with a bill that,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}