A court in Tehran has sentenced to four years in prison an Iranian woman who converted to Christianity, the Iranpressnews website reported on Friday.
The court found Mariam Naqqash guilty of "endangering national security by spreading religious propaganda in the country", the website reported.
Naqqash was also accused of spying for Britain and Israel and is being held in Tehran's Evin prison.
Rights activists report that numerous underground churches have sprung up in Tehran and the nearby cities amid a sharp increase in recent years in the number of young people converting to Christianity from Islam. [AKI] Read more
