by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Mar 2021 | News
The UK’s permanent representative to the UN has called on Iran to end its “persistent” discrimination and persecution of religious minorities, “particularly the Baha’i and Christian converts”. Julian Braithwaite was speaking as part of a 9 March interactive dialogue...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Mar 2021 | Features
Clockwise from top-left: Aylar Bakhtari, Maryam Falahi, Mahrokh Ghanbari, Mary Mohammadi, Shamiram Issavi, Marjan Falahi, Malihe Nazari, Sonya Sadegh, Masoumeh Ghasemi, Fatemeh Talebi On International Women’s Day, we honour the Christian women who have been arrested,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Mar 2021 | News
Agnes Callamard, UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (Photo: UN/Mark Garten) The UN’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions has condemned Iran for “multiple human rights violations” in the downing last...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 2 Mar 2021 | Features
Maryam Rooznahani Peyhani fled her home in Iran two years ago today, on the anniversary of the raid on her Tehran house-church. The 35-year-old convert to Christianity had been interrogated during the March 2018 raid, and had been told to expect a call from the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Feb 2021 | News
Iranian Christian convert Ebrahim Firouzi has been released on bail after nearly three weeks in detention. The 34-year-old, who has already spent years in prison and is now living in exile, was detained on 8 February on new charges of “insulting the sacred”...
