There is no punishment on apostasy.

The complainant says that his fellow students discovered his apostasy in December 1998 and made serious threats against him thereafter.

6.7 The second ground put forward by the complainant for his arrest has to do with his apostasy in 1996.

4.11 Even if the allegations of apostasy were credible, they would not necessarily mean that the complainant would be in danger of being tortured if sent home to Pakistan.

He maintains, however, that his conversion to Islam was not known about outside the confines of the University of Lahore, which only discovered his apostasy in December 1998 and, thus, only informed the police sometime thereafter.

4.10 The State party finds the importance which the complainant attaches to apostasy surprising, particularly since he did not make the claim until 26 September 2002 when he requested a review of the initial decision by the Swiss Asylum Review Commission.

Then there are those who built a mosque to cause harm, to spread apostasy and disunity among the believers as an outpost for those who from the outset warred on God and His Messenger. They swear, Our intentions were nothing but good, but God bears witness that they are lying.

Then there are those who built a mosque to cause harm, to spread apostasy and disunity among the believers as an outpost for those who from the outset warred on God and His Messenger. They swear, Our intentions were nothing but good, but God bears witness that they are lying.

The complainant explains the omission in his application for review partly by saying that he was ashamed, partly by saying that he feared the consequences of his apostasy, and lastly by saying that he did not realize the importance of the point until after the Commission handed down its decision on 5 August 2002.

It is also surprising, the State party finds, that the Lahore police report of 9 February 1998 explicitly mentions that the complainant is a Christian when the complainant claims to have presided over the branch of the Muslim Students Federation at his faculty from October to November 1997 onwards, his apostasy becoming common knowledge only in December 1998.

4.5 Presented with a request to review its decision, in which the complainant mentioned for the first time that he had renounced Islam in 1996, the Swiss Asylum Review Commission turned down the request in a fresh decision on 13 November 2002, referring in the main to an interim decision of 10 October 2002 by the reporting magistrate who pointed out that the complainant could not satisfactorily explain why he had not mentioned his apostasy before the review proceedings.