by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Oct 2026 | News
Christian convert Hannah Gholami has been “pardoned” and released from the remainder of her two-year prison sentence on charges related to her participation in a house-church. The 36-year-old was arrested three Christmases ago and in total served around half her...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 15 Oct 2026 | News
Christian convert Ghazal Marzban is among over 20 detainees in the women’s ward of Evin Prison who have been denied visitors in recent months as punishment for protesting against conditions in the notorious Tehran facility. Ghazal, who is serving a sentence of nine...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 9 Oct 2026 | News
The wife of an Iranian-Armenian pastor who has been in Evin Prison since February last year has now been summoned to begin her own prison sentence. Lida Alexani, a grandmother who recently celebrated her 58th birthday, is the wife of Joseph Shahbazian, who is...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Sep 2026 | News
The chair of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFMI) has called for “long-term, flexible and sustained support” for Iranian civil society organisations, “particularly women-led and minority organisations, because they’re the ones documenting...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Sep 2026 | News
A Christian convert serving a sentence of over nine years in Evin Prison has gone on hunger strike to protest against being denied access to a Bible and being threatened with death for apostasy. Ghazal Marzban, who turned 43 earlier this month in the women’s ward of...
