Mehdi DibajIran 
Mehdi Dibaj was born into a Muslim family but became a Christian in the 1940s. In December 1993, an Islamic court in Sari sentenced him to death for apostasy. The conviction was based on the charge that he had abandoned Islam 45 years earlier by becoming a Christian. Following a worldwide campaign, Dibaj was released in January 1994. Five months after his release from prison, Dibaj was abducted and murdered.
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