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You can be sentenced to death for blasphemy in 7 countries, worldwide.

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Spotlight on Iran

The penal code of Iran was formally changed in 2012. In addition to numerous other human rights issues that remain under the new penal code, the crimes of “apostasy” and “blasphemy” are still in force and are punishable by death.

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