by Steve Dew-Jones | 30 Jun 2020 | News
Rashin Soodmand speaking with Release International yesterday. (Photo: YouTube/ReleaseInternational) The daughter of an Iranian Christian pastor executed for “apostasy” 30 years ago has called on the Iranian authorities to return his burial place to his family. Rev...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Jun 2020 | News
L to R: Pooriya Peyma, Fatemeh Talebi, Maryam Falahi, Sam Khosravi, Habib Heydari, Sasan Khosravi, Marjan Falahi. Seven Christian converts in the south-western Iranian city of Bushehr have been given sentences ranging from prison and exile to work restrictions and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Jun 2020 | News
The UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, Javaid Rehman (UN Web TV) Article18 welcomes the extension of the mandate of the UN’s special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran by another year. Last week, Article18 joined 38 rights groups in...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Jun 2020 | News
Left to right: Saheb Fadaie, Yousef Nadarkhani, and Youhan Omidi. Three converts currently serving 10-year sentences in Tehran’s Evin Prison have had their sentences reduced at a retrial, but they are still facing years in prison and exile. Yousef Nadarkhani and Zaman...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Jun 2020 | News
The Central Assemblies of God Church in Tehran is one of several churches forcibly closed in recent years in Iran. A human rights lawyer whose clients include jailed Christian convert Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh says a recent change to the law in Iran “will facilitate the...
