The trial of an Afghan man who is facing execution for converting to Christianity is illegal and must be stopped, said the religious liberty representative of the world’s largest evangelical body.
Godfrey Yogarajah, executive director of the World Evangelical Alliance’s Religious Liberty Commission, argues that the trial of convert Said Musa, 45, breaks at least three provisions of Afghanistan’s 2004 Constitution.
According to Article 130 of the country’s Constitution, courts can rely on Sharia law only within the limits of the Constitution and only if the “pending” case does not relate to any provisions in the Constitution or any other law.
A case qualifies as “pending” if it is registered under law. But Yogarajah points out that apostasy is not a crime recognized by the Afghan Constitution or any other statutory law.
“Article 27 of the Constitution says that no person shall be pursued, arrested or detained for an act that is not considered a crime,” said Yogarajah in a statement Saturday. “So under what statutory law was Musa arrested?”
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