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17th January 2025The UN Committee Against Torture has four times found Sweden guilty of violation its convention for its decisions to deport Christian converts, underscoring persistent concerns about the country’s immigration practices. [...]Read more...
15th January 2025Iran remains among the world’s most “extreme” persecutors of Christians, according to the annual report of Article18’s partner organisation Open […] [...]Read more...
10th January 2025This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding by a German Protestant pastor of Iran’s first school for the […] [...]Read more...
7th January 2025The head of Iran’s judiciary has boasted about the decision to provide Christian prisoners with five days leave over Christmas, […] [...]Read more...
6th January 2025A Catholic convert arrested after protesting against her mistreatment by the Iranian authorities has been released after two months in […] [...]Read more...
24th December 2024A house-church member from the northern city of Rasht has been released after completing a two-and-a-half-year sentence for his peaceful […] [...]Read more...
16th December 2024An Iranian pastor who has been in and out of prison since his first arrest in 2006 was released from […] [...]Read more...
4th December 2024An Iranian Christian convert detained by agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) last month has been released on […] [...]Read more...
4th December 2024Iran’s Catholic archbishop has admitted that the doors to the churches he oversees are “closed to almost everyone”, and said […] [...]Read more...

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Know your Rights

All those active in society in Iran can expect to be arrested if they do not agree with
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Report: The Cost of Faith

Persecution of Christian Protestants and Converts in Iran

Article18 made a considerable contribution to this 2013 report, in which the Center for Human Rights in Iran documented the rights violations of Protestant Christians in Iran within the context of international human rights laws and the rights guaranteed within Iran's own constitution.

A Cry from Iran

Two brothers, a murdered father and an untold story of pain and forgiveness are the inspirations behind a ten times award-winning documentary on the secret death of a prominent evangelical pastor in Iran, Haik Hovsepian. This is the untold story of Iranian Christian martyrs, and Christian converts, who became the victims of their beliefs and paid the ultimate price – their lives...

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