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,...
by Mansour Borji | 21 Apr 2022 | News
A Christian convert in Iran was arrested after a dozen plainclothes agents from the Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) raided his house, confiscating several Bibles. Rahmat Rostamipour, 49, was driven away in a convoy of four cars at 8am on Monday, 18 April, from his...
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...
