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 "topic": "apostasy",
 "label": "Apostasy Laws",
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   "label": "Criminal offense",
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   "id": "unknown",
   "label": "Unknown / Insufficient data",
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  "AFG": {
   "status": "death_penalty",
   "summary": "Apostasy is a crime punishable by death under Hanafi jurisprudence applied by Afghan courts.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 2015,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "ARE": {
   "status": "death_penalty",
   "summary": "Apostasy is a hudud crime in the Penal Code, punishable by death, though no executions have been recorded.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 1978,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "BEL": {
   "status": "legal",
   "summary": "There are no legal penalties for apostasy in Belgium, despite social stigma and threats.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 2017,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "BGD": {
   "status": "legal",
   "summary": "Apostasy is not a criminal offense in Bangladesh, though social persecution occurs.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 2016,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "BIH": {
   "status": "legal",
   "summary": "No specific apostasy law exists, though ex-Muslims face social discrimination in Bosnia and Herzegovina.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 1995,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "BRN": {
   "status": "death_penalty",
   "summary": "Apostasy is a capital crime under Brunei's Syariah Penal Code, enforceable since 2019.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 2019,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "DZA": {
   "status": "illegal",
   "summary": "Apostasy is a criminal offense punishable by imprisonment or fines in Algeria.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 2010,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "ERI": {
   "status": "illegal",
   "summary": "Leaving Islam for unrecognised religions leads to arrest and detention in Eritrea.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 2015,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "GBR": {
   "status": "legal",
   "summary": "There are no legal penalties for apostasy in the UK, and ex-Muslims can freely question their former faith.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 2015,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "IDN": {
   "status": "illegal",
   "summary": "Apostasy is prosecuted under blasphemy laws in Indonesia, leading to imprisonment for declaring atheism.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 2012,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "IND": {
   "status": "legal",
   "summary": "No federal law criminalizes apostasy in India, though social hostility exists.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 2021,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "IRQ": {
   "status": "legal",
   "summary": "Apostasy is not explicitly criminalized in Iraq, though social and familial violence occurs.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 2015,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "JOR": {
   "status": "illegal",
   "summary": "Apostasy is not explicitly banned in the penal code but carries serious civil and criminal penalties including prison and marriage annulment.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 2009,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "KWT": {
   "status": "illegal",
   "summary": "Apostasy is not explicitly criminalized but family courts can annul marriages and strip property and inheritance rights.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 1996,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "LBY": {
   "status": "death_penalty",
   "summary": "Atheism is prohibited and can carry the death penalty, with Sharia law serving as the basis for legislation.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 2016,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "LKA": {
   "status": "unknown",
   "summary": "Evidence describes social taboos and threats but provides no information on specific criminal laws or penalties.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": null,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "low",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "MAR": {
   "status": "legal",
   "summary": "The penal code does not impose the death penalty, and a previous fatwa calling for it was retracted.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 2017,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "MDV": {
   "status": "death_penalty",
   "summary": "A new regulation revived the death penalty for apostasy, applicable to persons aged seven and older.",
   "notes": "Citation not found in the source text: 'revived the death penalty... for a number of hudud offences, including apostasy'",
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 2014,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "low",
   "needsReview": true,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "MRT": {
   "status": "death_penalty",
   "summary": "Article 306 of the criminal code declares apostasy illegal and provides a death sentence.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": null,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "NGA": {
   "status": "illegal",
   "summary": "Apostasy is a crime in 12 northern Nigerian states under Sharia law, though not federally.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 2005,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "NLD": {
   "status": "legal",
   "summary": "Apostasy is legal in the Netherlands, protected by freedom of religion laws.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 2015,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "OMN": {
   "status": "illegal",
   "summary": "Oman lacks an explicit apostasy law, but personal status laws annul marriages and deny inheritance rights to apostates.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 1997,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "PAK": {
   "status": "illegal",
   "summary": "Apostasy is a criminal offence under hudood law per the Federal Shariat Court, despite lack of statutory enactment.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 2010,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "PSE": {
   "status": "illegal",
   "summary": "Apostasy is treated as defaming religion, punishable by imprisonment in the West Bank.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 2010,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "QAT": {
   "status": "death_penalty",
   "summary": "Apostasy is a hudud crime under Law 11 of 2004, punishable by death.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 2004,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "SAU": {
   "status": "death_penalty",
   "summary": "Apostasy is actively enforced with the death penalty under Sharia law in Saudi Arabia.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 2015,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "SDN": {
   "status": "legal",
   "summary": "The death penalty for apostasy was scrapped in July 2020 during the transition to democracy.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 2020,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "SOM": {
   "status": "death_penalty",
   "summary": "The constitution declares Sharia the highest law, prescribing death for apostasy, though executions are often extrajudicial.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": null,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "TUN": {
   "status": "legal",
   "summary": "The 2014 Constitution prohibits accusations of apostasy, protecting citizens from prosecution for renouncing Islam.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 2014,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "TUR": {
   "status": "legal",
   "summary": "Turkey is a secular country that does not legally enforce punishments for apostasy, though social pressures exist.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 2006,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "USA": {
   "status": "legal",
   "summary": "There are no legal penalties for apostasy in the United States, and leaving Islam is not a criminal offense.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 2017,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  },
  "YEM": {
   "status": "death_penalty",
   "summary": "Apostasy is a crime in Yemen punishable by death under the Penal Code.",
   "notes": null,
   "sources": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country"
   ],
   "lastUpdated": 2012,
   "hasSubnational": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needsReview": false,
   "method": "llm"
  }
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