Sharia in Iran: 'Death to converts'

Life in Iran, in particular for women, can already be pretty grim, as the blog from which this picture was taken testifies. But it is about to get a whole lot worse. For just about everybody. The Iranian parliament is discussing a new penal code, under which citizens who convert from another religion will face execution. The Baha'i community, among the most persecuted of all in Iran as I've reported previously, today described this as a 'gross violation' of Iran's human rights obligations. At the same time, as we report, pollsters YouGovStone have found that nearly one in third of Britain's most influential people welcome the Archbishop of Canterbury's recent intervention on sharia as a useful contribution to the debate.