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23rd July 2024Mohammad Javad Zarif emphasises “positive discrimination” for women and minorities, but it is the Islamic Republic that has been the main source of discrimination and oppression. [...]Read more...
18th July 2024Article18 has submitted a joint report to the UN Human Rights Council ahead of Iran’s upcoming Universal Periodic Review, highlighting […] [...]Read more...
4th July 2024Iran’s hand-picked presidential candidates have used some nice phrases in recent weeks about the rights and “dignity” of the people of Iran in general, and women and minorities in particular, but they have lacked any substance. [...]Read more...
24th June 2024“Many people throughout the world have reacted with shock to the murders of three Protestant clergymen in recent months.” So […] [...]Read more...
24th June 2024Rev Mehdi Dibaj’s final defence, before he was sentenced to death for “apostasy”, was published in full by The Times […] [...]Read more...
18th June 2024Eight Iranian Christian converts have been sentenced to a combined total of nearly 45 years in prison. The eight, who […] [...]Read more...
12th June 2024A Christian convert arrested last month remains in detention in an unknown location, as his wife and two daughters grow […] [...]Read more...
11th June 2024An Armenian Christian has been condemned to 10 years in prison in Iran despite his lawyer arguing that the case […] [...]Read more...
10th June 2024A Christian convert who was detained for over four months following his arrest on Christmas Eve has been sentenced to […] [...]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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