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...
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...
