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...
by Mansour Borji | 24 Dec 2024 | News
A house-church member from the northern city of Rasht has been released after completing a two-and-a-half-year sentence for his peaceful religious activities. Morteza Mashhoodkari, along with two other members of the “Church of Iran”, Ahmad (Youḥanna)...
by Mansour Borji | 22 Feb 2024 | News
A Christian convert who had been imprisoned and exiled by the regime has been found dead aged 37. Ebrahim Firouzi’s family told mourners at his burial today (Thursday, 22 February) that “he died of a heart attack” on Tuesday, 20 February. Paying tribute...
by Mansour Borji | 1 Jun 2023 | Witness Statements
For a summary of Vahid’s story, you can read our feature article here. Background 1. My name is Vahid Hakani. I was born in 1982, in Shiraz, into a Muslim family. My grandmother always prayed and adhered to Islamic rules. My religious role models during my childhood...
by Mansour Borji | 30 May 2023 | News
A Court of Appeal in Tehran has cut a decade-long prison sentence for a Christian down to two years after a retrial. Joseph Shahbazian, an Iranian-Armenian Christian who was imprisoned for holding church services in his home, has spent nine months in Evin prison,...
