Mehdi Akbari, who is known as Yasser, was given a 10-year prison sentence in October 2020 for “acting against national security by forming a house-church”. He was released from prison in September 2024 after his sentence was reduced to four years and five months.
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”.
A Christian convert whose only son died during his nearly five years in Evin Prison has been released after his […]
A 62-year-old Iranian-Armenian pastor serving a 10-year prison sentence for leading a house-church has been acquitted and released after just […]
A 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”.
Article18 has submitted a joint report to the UN Human Rights Council ahead of Iran’s upcoming Universal Periodic Review, highlighting […]
An Armenian Christian has been condemned to 10 years in prison in Iran despite his lawyer arguing that the case […]
An Armenian Christian who remains in Evin Prison nearly five months after his arrest faces a first court hearing this […]
Iran’s violations of the rights of religious minorities, including Christians, was one of the issues raised by a panel of […]
As Iran’s president was flying to New York this morning, an Iranian-Armenian pastor was handing himself in to prison in […]
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