by designer | 12 Jan 2018 | News
The court hearing on the case of Shamiram Issavi, the wife of the pastor Victor Bet-Tamraz, was held on 6 January at a Revolutionary Court in Tehran under the chairmanship of Judge Mashallah Ahmadzadeh. The Iranian-Assyrian Christian was sentenced to five years in...
by designer | 23 Nov 2017 | News
Christian convert Mohammad Ali Torabi has been released from Ahvaz Prison on bail of 200 million tomans (around $60,000). Mohammad, 39, who is known as Davoud among his Christian friends and is part of the Message of Freedom Church, was arrested in Dezful on 10...
by designer | 12 Nov 2017 | News
An Iranian court has upheld the ten-year prison sentences given to one Iranian and three Azerbaijani Christians in July. Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh, an Iranian convert to Christianity, was arrested alongside the Azerbaijanis – Eldar Gurbanov, Yusif Farhadov...
by designer | 15 Mar 2015 | Reports
This joint report is the result of a follow-up enquiry into the persecution of Christians in Iran by the Christians in Parliament All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) and the APPG for International Freedom of Religion or Belief. The report catalogues the abuses...
by designer | 1 Dec 2013 | Reports
Article18 contributed to this 2013 report, which documents 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. The comprehensive, 73-page report...
