Apostasy law is actively enforced in Saudi Arabia . For example , Saudi authorities charged Hamza Kashgari , a Saudi writer , in 2012 with apostasy based on comments he made on Twitter . He fled to Malaysia , where he was arrested and then extradited on request by Saudi Arabia to face charges . Kashgari repented , upon which the courts ordered that he be placed in protective custody . Similarly , two Saudi Sunni Muslim citizens were arrested and charged with apostasy for adopting the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam . As of May 2014 , the two accused of apostasy had served two years in prison awaiting trial
Ahmadiyya
Persecution of Ahmadis
Apostasy in Islam