A Christian convert, “Ismail Maghrebi-Nejad”,rejected charges against him in court
reports indicate that the judicial court investigating charges against Ismail Maghrebi-Nejad, a Christian convert resident in Shiraz, is going to be held on Saturday, November 2, 2019
He was summoned to the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Shiraz on Tuesday, October 22, 2019. According to the report, he was asked by the judge on his charges, namely “insulting Islam” and “apostasy”, and Ismail responded: “Ayatollahs have different kinds of interpretations for apostasy
Following the trial session for this case, the Judge has increased his bail to 100 million tomans, and Maghrebi-Nejad announced that he could not afford this money. Eventually, the payslip of two employees, who were his friends, were assigned as the bail.
According to the English section of the Article 18, the Christian citizen was told that the judge accused him on charges of blasphemy and apostasy, and Ismail Maghrebi-Nejad has denied both charges. He is temporarily free until the trial
This 65-year-old citizen, who converted to Christianity 40 years ago, was arrested on Friday, January 25, 2019, by the plainclothes intelligence agents in Shiraz. During the past four decades, he has been pressured by the Islamic Republic’s security agencies and survived an assassination attempt about five years ago
Ismail’s wife, Mahvash Mahmoudian, had converted to Christianity in 1999. However, he died in 2013, and unfortunately, his family’s request to bury her in the Christian cemetery was ignored, and the Iranian authorities did not allow them. In spite of a letter from the “Azad Marshall”, Bishop in the Anglican Church or diocese of Iran, confirming that the deceased was a Christian believer and a member of Episcopal Church in Iran who had also performed the baptism and confirmation ceremony in the church, it was ineffective
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