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22nd September 2023Iranian Christians continue to be among the most affected by the significant drop in refugee resettlement to the United States […] [...]Read more...
18th September 2023As Iran’s president was flying to New York this morning, an Iranian-Armenian pastor was handing himself in to prison in […] [...]Read more...
16th September 2023Article18 has joined over 125 other Iranian Christian organisations and churches from 16 different countries in signing a joint statement […] [...]Read more...
14th September 2023Iranian-Armenian pastor Joseph Shahbazian has been “pardoned” and released after just over a year in Tehran’s Evin Prison. [...]Read more...
8th September 2023It’s 10 years since Nasrin was arrested, but it has taken nearly all that time for her to recover and […] [...]Read more...
8th September 2023My name is Nasrin Kiamarzi and I was born in 1981 in Isfahan. I became a Christian in December 2003. [...]Read more...
23rd August 2023The director of an organisation that supports refugees in the UK, including Iranian Christians, has spoken to Article18 about the […] [...]Read more...
10th August 2023A clearer picture is beginning to emerge of the dozens of arrests of Christians that took place over a seven-week […] [...]Read more...
9th August 2023A set of three handwoven rugs by an Iranian Christian asylum-seeker are so impressive and significant that they should be displayed in a national museum, according to the director of the art gallery currently exhibiting the works. [...]Read more...

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Iranian Christian Prisoners List

An up-to-date, comprehensive list of Iran’s Christian prisoners.

Know your Rights

All those active in society in Iran can expect to be arrested if they do not agree with
or adhere to the government's views. Knowing one's rights can
minimise the consequences of incarceration.

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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