by Mansour Borji | 1 Jan 2022 | News
Clockwise from top-left: Shahrooz Eslamdoust, Mehdi Khatibi, Babak Hosseinzadeh, Hossein Kadivar, Mohammad Vafadar, Abdolreza (Matthias) Ali-Haghnejad, Behnam Akhlaghi, Khalil Dehghanpour, Kamal Naamanian Nine converts serving five-year prison sentences for...
by Mansour Borji | 14 Jan 2021 | News
Iran has risen to eighth place in the latest annual listing of the 50 countries in which the persecution of Christians is most prevalent. The 2021 World Watch List was published yesterday by international Christian charity Open Doors. North Korea, Afghanistan and...
by Mansour Borji | 1 May 2018 | News
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has cited Iran among the main contributing countries towards an “ongoing downward trend” in religious liberty worldwide and called on the Trump administration to prioritise the release of religious prisoners and...
by Mansour Borji | 12 Oct 2017 | News
Mohammad Ali Torabi, an Iranian convert to Christianity, has been arrested in the city of Dezful, in the southwest of the country. Security agents detained Mohammad at his office in the Qal’a Sayyed district of Dezful on Tuesday, 10 October and took him to an unknown...
by Mansour Borji | 8 Jul 2017 | News
An Iranian court has sentenced four Christians to ten years’ imprisonment. Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh, an Iranian citizen and Christian convert, has been found guilty along with three Azerbaijani Christians who were arrested with him in Iran in June 2016. The four...
