Although the opinion of the ECHR is that Iranian is not threatened by political threat in Iran, he could be prosecuted or sentenced to death because of conversion from Islam.

Author:
dijana Jurasić
http://www.vecernji.hr/autori/dijana-jurasic-524/profil

Source:
http://www.vecernji.hr/svijet/prelazak-na-krscanstvo-razlog-je-za-azil-svedskane-smije-protjerati-iranca-1072137

Iranian F. G. (54), who converted from Islam to Christianity in Sweden should not be expelled, rules decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) because in Iran he could be prosecuted or sentenced to death. Swedish authorities, following decision of the ECHR must make a new assessment of the risks and consequences of which he would be exposed in Iran because of his transition to Christianity, meantime he remains in Sweden.

Conversion is a personal matter

This decision of the ECHR will certainly reflect on the rights of asylum seekers that European countries will not be able to deport just so if they decide to switch from Islam to Christianity, although they in their home countries are not threatened because of war or political reasons.

In the same decision the Grand Chamber of the ECHR found that Mr F.G. in Iran would not be persecuted in life-threatening mode, nor he would be persecuted for his political past.
F. G. came to Sweden in November 2009 and was a low profile political activist against the Iranian regime. In request for asylum he placed in 2007 he stated that he mainly worked with the student movement, helping them to create and publish Web content, critical to the Iranian regime. He was arrested on three occasions, in November 2009, was summoned to the Iranian court, but fled the country. Although in the request for asylum he mentioned that he converted to Christianity in Sweden, he did not want to call on this because it was his personal matter.

But in 2011, Sweden had refused to grant him asylum on political grounds because he had exaggerated the political vulnerability and because from the 2009 Iranian court did no longer even called him in, and his family in Iran were not targeted by Iranian authorities. G. F. then asked not to be deported because of conversion to Christianity, but the Swedish authorities refused him saying that this is not a "new situation" due to which it has to reconsider his request for asylum.

In support of asylum

Iranian is not an isolated case because the Deutsche Welle wrote that an increasing number of refugees from Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, in Germany pass from Islam to Christianity. For authorities baptism is "independently and subsequently created reason for seeking asylum". In Germany, the dilemma is how to check whether the person is baptized because of it's religious conviction or just to get asylum? But in both cases, deportation threatens them.

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Stockholm riots leave Sweden's dreams of perfect society up in smoke

A week of disturbances in Sweden's capital has tested the Scandinavian nation's reputation for tolerance, reports Colin Freeman

By Colin Freeman, Husby

1:36PM BST 25 May 2013
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Like the millions of other ordinary Swedes whom he now sees himself as one of, Mohammed Abbas fears his dream society is now under threat. When he first arrived in Stockholm as refugee from Iran in 1994, the vast Husby council estate where he settled was a mixture of locals and foreigners, a melting pot for what was supposed to be a harmonious, multi-racial paradise.

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And Swedes are long away to become Christians again as their predecessors were.
The Vickings.

Or Vickings were Danes?, some of which later on become Russians?

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