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Iran remained among world’s worst violators of religious freedom in 2025 – report
The Islamic Republic of Iran has once again been named among the world’s worst violators of...
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US Commission on International Religious Freedom 2026 Annual Report
The Islamic Republic of Iran has once again been named among the world’s worst violators of...
Amir-Ali Minaei
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Charge:
Establishing a house-church -
Sentence:
3 years & 7 months -
Urgent Concern:
Denied medical care
2025 INCIDENTS
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Hakop Gochumyan
Armenian citizen Hakop Gochumyan is serving a 10-year prison sentence in Evin Prison for “engaging in deviant proselytising activity that contradicts the sacred law of Islam” through alleged membership and leadership of “a network of evangelical Christianity”.
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Iranian Christian refugee pens poem about pain of forced migration
The daughter of an Iranian Christian couple who fled Iran to claim asylum in Turkey has written a...
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Denying prisoners religious books, instruction violates rights – UN rapporteur
Providing detainees with access to their holy books and religious instruction should be considered among the “minimum standards” that States must respect in order not to violate their rights, says the UN’s Special Rapporteur on FoRB
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Alireza Aghajari
Introduction My name is Alireza Aghajari. I was born in June 1979 to a Muslim family in Shiraz and...
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