by Steve Dew-Jones | 14 Oct 2020 | News
Iranian convert Mohammad Reza (Youhan) Omidi was today lashed 80 times for drinking wine as part of Holy Communion. It is illegal for Muslim Iranians to drink alcohol, but exceptions are made for recognised religious minorities, including Christians. However, Iran...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 13 Oct 2020 | News
One hundred and twenty lawyers and activists have written an open letter to the head of the judiciary in Iran, asking him to overturn a court’s decision to remove a two-year-old girl from her adoptive parents because they are Christian converts. Sam Khosravi and his...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Oct 2020 | News
By Fred Petrossian ‘White Torture’ was written by Narges Mohammadi. Christian convert Mary Mohammadi is among 12 female current and former prisoners of conscience interviewed as part of a new book on “white torture” inside Iran’s prisons. The book, written...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Oct 2020 | Features
By Mary Mohammadi Iranian Christian convert Mary Mohammadi was expelled from university last December, without explanation, on the eve of her English-language exams. Nearly a year on, Mary poetically describes the immense impact of this deprivation of education...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Oct 2020 | News
Forty-seven UN member states signed a joint statement read out at the Human Rights Council in Geneva last week, condemning Iran’s human rights abuses. The statement, read out by the German representative on 25 September, expressed “deep concern” about violations of...
