26/02/2008 (Agence Europe) - The EU, which is deeply concerned by the current deterioration in the human rights situation in Iran, has expressed “its acute concern about the news that the Iranian parliament is reviewing a draft penal code”, section five of which is devoted to apostasy, heresy and witchcraft. If this law is adopted, the crime of apostasy will be punishable by death, the Slovenian presidency of the Council of the EU observes in a press release published on 25 February. It...