by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Dec 2020 | Features
Today is the 30th anniversary of the hanging of Iranian Christian convert Rev Hossein Soodmand for “apostasy”. Hossein had been arrested a few weeks beforehand, and was executed following a ruling by an Islamic clerical court, without his family’s knowledge. His wife,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Nov 2020 | News
Aziz (Andreas) Majidzadeh is 56 years old and lives in Tehran with his wife and two children. Two Iranian Christian converts have overturned on appeal a combined 10-year prison sentence for their leadership of a house-church. Aziz Majidzadeh, known as Andreas, and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Nov 2020 | Features
This Sunday will be the 15th anniversary of the brutal murder of Iranian Christian convert Ghorban Tourani, whose still-bleeding body was dumped onto his doorstep on 22 November 2005. Ghorban’s murder – he was stabbed in the stomach, throat and back –...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Nov 2020 | News
The UN General Assembly in New York (Photo: Patrick Gruban / Flickr / CC) The UN’s General Assembly has passed a resolution expressing “serious concerns” about the situation of human rights in Iran, including “severe limitations” and “increasing restrictions” on...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Nov 2020 | Features
Iranian Christian convert Kavian Fallah-Mohammadi has spoken exclusively with Article18 about his arrest at a Christmas gathering in 2014, at the home of Iranian-Assyrian pastor Victor Bet-Tamraz, his subsequent 10-year prison sentence, and the eventual rejection of...
