The Iranian parliament is set to debate a bill to beef up penalties for “harming mental security”, e.g., using the internet to promote apostasy from Islam.

MPs on Wednesday voted to discuss as a priority the draft bill which seeks to "toughen punishment for harming mental security in society," the ISNA news agency said.

The text lists a wide range of crimes such rape and armed robbery for which the death penalty is already applicable. The crime of apostasy (the act of leaving a religion, in this case Islam) is also already punishable by death.

However, the draft bill also includes "establishing weblogs and sites promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy", which is a new addition to crimes punishable by death.

If the bill becomes law, those offences could be punished by "hanging, amputation of the right hand and then the left foot as well as exile" (not in that order, I presume).

h/t: Dhimmi Watch

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