Iran Focus: London, Oct. 14 – A Christian couple were flogged in Iran for participating in an underground Church, an Iranian Christian group said in a report on its website earlier this week. Iran Focus
London, Oct. 14 – A Christian couple were flogged in Iran for participating in an underground Church, an Iranian Christian group said in a report on its website earlier this week.
The unnamed couple were arrested on September 21, 2005, the report said, adding that a Revolutionary Court reviewed their case in July 2007.
Even though the couple had decided to marry seven years ago, the countrys marriage laws – which prohibit the union of ex-Muslims and members of other religious minorities prevented them from obtaining a certificate of marriage.
The report said that the woman was born a Christian in an Assyrian-Iranian family and the man was a convert to Christianity prior to getting married.
The court ruled that both the man and the woman were Mortad, a description of someone who has committed apostasy by leaving Islam.
