Pastor Behnam Irani of Iran has been sentenced to prison for his faith. As a result of prison conditions he has a bleeding ulcer and a herniated disc. He has not received treatment from a doctor for any of these issues. The judge that wrote his verdict stated, "“Considering the explicit confessions of the above mentioned individual [Irani] during the trial, that his father and mother were Muslims and he, himself, also opted for Islam when he reached maturity, and then left the holy religion of Islam and became a Christian. And that he also deceived a group of people into leaving Islam. Therefore as mentioned in … [Islamic religious text] … the abovementioned individual is definitely an innate apostate, and the sentence for innate apostasy is death."



