Converting from Islam a Capital Offense in Bush's New Afghanistan - Providence Journal/U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom

http://www.projo.com/religion/content/projo_20050305_riafghan.1bb7abd.html

Experts say that despite the reforms of President Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan remains a conservative country, committed to an interpretation of Islamic law that makes apostasy a capital crime.
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In May 2003 a federal commission that advises the president and Congress on how best to promote religious liberty expressed grave reservations about how the Afghan judiciary would treat the crime of apostasy.

"Afghan jurists have stated that apostasy from Islam would be considered a capital offense, but have intimated that ways would be found to avoid the death penalty," wrote members of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

See also - http://www.uscirf.gov/index.php3?scale=1280