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Abdul Rahman ((アラビア語:عبدالرحمن)) (born 1965) was an Afghan citizen who was arrested in February 2006 and threatened with the death penalty for converting to Christianity. On March 26, 2006, under heavy pressure from foreign governments, the court returned his case to prosecutors, citing "investigative gaps". He was released from prison to his family on the night of March 27. On March 29, Abdul Rahman arrived in Italy after the Italian government offered him asylum. Abdul Rahman's arrest and trial brought international attention to an apparent contradiction in the Constitution of Afghanistan, which recognizes both a limited form of freedom of religion and the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence, which mandates the death penalty for apostasy from Islam. The case attracted widespread international condemnation, notably from the United Kingdom and the United States, both of whom led the campaign to remove the fundamentalist Taliban regime in 2001 and are the main donors to Afghanistan. ==Early life== Abdul Rahman was born in 1965. In 1990, when working as a staff member for a Catholic non-governmental aid group providing medical assistance to Afghan refugees in Peshawar, Pakistan, he came in touch with Christianity and was subsequently baptised into the Roman Catholic Church.〔 〕 After his conversion he adopted the Biblical name Joel.〔(Quotidiano Net )〕 In 1993, he moved to Germany and later unsuccessfully sought asylum in Belgium before being deported to Afghanistan〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Afghan Convert to Christianity Finds Asylum in Italy )〕 in 2002 after the fall of the Taliban government.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Abdul Rahman, Isaias, EDA & the Eritrean Evangelicals )〕 Abdul Rahman's wife divorced him because of his conversion to Catholicism.〔 In the ensuing custody battle over the couple's two daughters,〔 who had been raised by Abdul Rahman's parents during his absence,〔Rachel Morarjee, (Abdul Rahman's Family Values ). ''Time Magazine'' March 29, 2006〕 the mother's family raised the issue of his religion as grounds for denying him custody.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Islamic Injustice: The Abdul Rahman Case )〕 When he returned to Afghanistan, he was disowned by his parents, who stated: "Because he has converted from Islam to another religion we don't want him in our house" and "(Rahman ) wanted to change the ethics of my children and family. He is not going in the right direction. I have thrown him out of my house", while his daughters said that "He behaves badly with us and we were threatened and disgraced by him. He has no job and has never given me a stitch of clothing or a crust of bread. Just his name as a father" and "He said he was my father but he hasn't behaved like a father since he came back to Afghanistan. He threatens us and we are all afraid of him and he doesn't believe in the religion of Islam."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abdul Rahman (convert)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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