by designer | 31 Oct 2023 | News
Iran has for many years been listed among the worst countries for persecuting Christians, featuring prominently every year on Open Doors International’s World Watch List of the top 50 persecutors and the US State Department’s Countries of Particular Concern for...
by designer | 23 Jul 2023 | Prisoners
Hakop Gochumyan, an Armenian citizen, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and is currently incarcerated in Evin Prison on charges of “engaging in deviant educational and propaganda activities contrary to the sacred law of Islam through membership and...
by designer | 2 Jun 2022 | News
Left to right: Maryam (Khadijeh) Mohammadi, Anooshavan Avedian, and Abbas Soori. An appeal court has upheld a 10-year prison sentence for a house-church leader issued by a notorious judge. Anooshavan Avedian, an Iranian-Armenian Christian, faces 10 years in...
by designer | 31 May 2022 | Witness Statements
For a summary of the Shekoohi family’s story, you can read our feature article here. Names: Esmail (Homayoun) Shekoohi Gholamzadeh (Born, 1958) Fariba Nazemianpour (Born, 1970)Fatemeh (Helma) Shekoohi (Born, 2000) Dates of arrest: May 2008, 8 February 2012 Date...
by designer | 21 Apr 2022 | Prisoners
Morteza Hajeb Mashoodkari and two other members of a house church in Rasht were arrested on 5 September 2021, during a raid by security forces. These three converts, all members of the “Church of Iran,” were then taken to an unknown location. The other two...
