by Mansour Borji | 4 Nov 2025 | News
One of five Christian converts sentenced to a combined total of over 40 years in Tehran’s Evin Prison on charges related to their religious activities has begun serving his sentence of nine and a half years. Morteza Faghanpour-Saasi, 38, who is from the city of...
by Mansour Borji | 4 Nov 2025 | News
A Christian convert who has been detained in the women’s ward of Tehran’s Evin Prison since February has suffered a spinal fracture after falling from her bunk bed. Aida Najaflou, who is 44 years old, was taken to Taleghani Hospital for an X-ray after...
by Mansour Borji | 17 Apr 2025 | News
Laleh Saati, a Christian convert and prisoner of conscience held in Tehran’s Evin Prison, has been denied access to specialised medical care and medical furlough despite suffering a physical injury. Her condition, caused by a fall in the prison yard that left her two...
by Mansour Borji | 14 Apr 2025 | News
Iranian-Armenian Christian pastor Joseph Shahbazian, who has been held in Tehran’s Evin Prison since February, was denied permission to attend his mother’s funeral today, despite the official conclusion of the investigation into his Christian activities. Article18...
by Mansour Borji | 18 Feb 2025 | News
Plainclothes officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) raided a gathering of around 80 Christians in a garden in northern Iran earlier this month, confiscating Bibles and musical instruments, and arresting one of the attendees. Christian convert Somayeh...
