Jerusalem Post - Iran releases persecuted Christian pastor

By Benjamin Weinthal, JPost.com

Iran’s judiciary issued orders to hang the dissident Christian, arrested in 2009 for seeking to register a home-based church.

Iran has released Youcef Nadarkhani, a Christian pastor, after three years of imprisonment on charges of apostasy, according to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCRIF). . .

In a statement sent to The Jerusalem Post on Saturday, the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a Washington-based advocacy group that promotes religious freedom in the US and abroad, wrote “Pastor Youcef had been summoned to appear before the court this morning for the charges brought against him. His hearing lasted almost six hours. But in the end, he was released and able to return home to his family.”. . .

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