Malaysian court tells convert she must stay Muslim: Convert could be jailed for apostasy
A Malaysian woman who converted to Christianity and waged a seven-year fight to legalize the change now stands in danger of being jailed for apostasy after the Muslim-majority country’s highest court ruled that she does not have a constitutional right to convert from Islam.
Lina Joy, said to be Malaysia’s best-known Christian convert and believed to be in hiding, had taken her case to a Malaysian federal court, which decided in a 2-1 decision May 30 that she could not remove “Islam” from the religion category of her government identity card.