by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Aug 2021 | Write a Message
Article18 is calling on the Iranian government to immediately release Christian prisoner of conscience Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh, and to stop prosecuting Christian converts like him. Nasser, who celebrated his 60th birthday on 3 August, has been in Tehran’s Evin Prison...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Aug 2021 | News
Left to right: Mohammad Ali (Davoud) Torabi, Mohammad Kayidgap, Esmaeil Narimanpour, and Alireza Varak-Shah. Four Christian converts from the south-western city of Dezful are the latest Iranian Christians to be officially charged with “propaganda against the Islamic...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 30 Jul 2021 | Features
The deaths of an elderly Iranian couple following a violent raid by intelligence agents on their house-church in 2008, though a relatively recent event, remains a largely untold story. Abbas Amiri, who was 63, and his wife Sakineh Rahnama – both converts to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Jul 2021 | News
Christian convert Hamed Ashouri has begun his 10-month prison sentence for “propaganda against the Islamic Republic”. The 31-year-old submitted himself to Karaj’s Central Prison yesterday. Before doing so, he recorded a short video, in which he explained that he had...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Jul 2021 | News
Left to right: Alireza Varak-Shah, Hojjat Lotfi Khalaf, Mohammad Ali (Davoud) Torabi, and Esmaeil Narimanpour. (MEC) Eight Christian converts in the southwestern city of Dezful have been summoned to answer charges of “propaganda against the Islamic Republic of Iran”....
