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6th September 2024A British-Iranian who spent over four years in Tehran’s Evin Prison says claims by Islamic Republic officials that “no-one is imprisoned in Iran because of their beliefs” are “among the 1000s of lies they have said”. [...]Read more...
2nd September 2024Embed from Getty Images The Iranian authorities’ “systematic” and “targeted” dissemination of disinformation about religious minorities, including Christians, has been […] [...]Read more...
29th August 2024The case files of over 300 Christians who faced charges related to their faith and religious activities are among the […] [...]Read more...
29th August 2024Of all the examples in the leaked Edaalate Ali files pertaining to Christians, one case stands out: that of a […] [...]Read more...
28th August 2024One of the eight Christian converts recently sentenced to a combined 45 years in prison for their involvement in house-churches […] [...]Read more...
7th August 2024Maryam Jalili was 40 years old when she became a Christian, and by then had already been through so much. […] [...]Read more...
7th August 2024My name is Maryam and I was born in 1964 in Neyshabur. I still remember all my interrogators’ threats. I always used to pass by construction sites with fear, afraid they would deliberately drop an iron beam on my head. [...]Read more...
6th August 2024A new report from the United Nations’ Fact-Finding Mission says ethnic and religious minorities were singled out in the Iran […] [...]Read more...
29th July 2024A Christian convert serving a two-year prison sentence for “acting against national security by connecting with ‘Zionist’ Christian organisations” has […] [...]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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