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52 http://www.csw.org.uk/latestnews/article.php?id=402 accessed 17.6.06
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55 Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom. Iran should release Baha’I prisoner. Press release 21 July 2004.)
56 Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom. New Martyr’s list. Iran 1999 (the following two examples are taken from the
same report)
57 Compass Direct. Convert Pastor Released on Bail. 13 June 2006.
58 Compass Direct. Convert stabbed to death. 28 November 2005.
59 Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Country Profile Kuweit. Accessed 22.6.06. www.fco.gov.uk/
60 Amnesty International. Hussein Qambar 'Ali: Death threats. August 1996; AI INDEX: MDE 17/05/96
61 US Department of State. International Religious Freedom Report. 2005; http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2005/51386.htm
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64 Ioannis Gatsiounis. Malaysia makes its case on conversion. Asia Times. 28.7.2004.
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66 Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Country Profile Nigeria. Accessed 22.6.06. www.fco.gov.uk/
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68 One Free World International, Toronto, Canada. Personal communication 18.07.06.
69 BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights and Amnesty International. Joint statement on the implementation of new Sharia-based
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70 Paul Marshall. Apostates from Islam. The case of the Afghan convert is not unique. The Weekly Standard. 04/10/2006.
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72 Amnesty International. Nigeria: Further information on Fear of ill-treatment / legal and medical concern; AI Index: AFR 44/13/00;
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77 Amnesty International Report on Pakistan 1996
78 Amnesty International Report on Pakistan 2006
79 Amnesty International Report on Pakistan 2005
80 Amnesty International Report on Pakistan 2004
81 Amnesty International Report on Pakistan 2003
82 Amnesty International Report on Pakistan 2002
83 Amnesty International Report on Pakistan 2001
84 Amnesty International Report on Pakistan 2000
85 Amnesty International Report on Pakistan 1999
86 Amnesty International Report on Pakistan 1998
87 Bess Twiston Davies. The Church in hiding in Pakistan. Christians in the Indian sub-continent fear for their lives. The Times, 28
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88 Bess Twiston Davies. The Church in hiding in Pakistan. Christians in the Indian sub-continent fear for their lives. The Times, 28
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89 Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Country Profile Saudi Arabia. Accessed 22.6.06. www.fco.gov.uk
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93 Amnesty International; AI Index: MDE 23/012/2001; Incommunicado detention/Possible prisoner of conscience; 24 August 2001.
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