by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Apr 2020 | News
Rajaei Shahr Prison, Karaj (Photo: Ensie & Matthias / Flickr / CC) A group of UN human rights experts have called on Iran to release all prisoners of conscience, in line with its obligations as a signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Apr 2020 | News
Mohammad Reza Faghani takes charge of an Iranian football match in February 2017. A top-level Iranian football referee has revealed that he was asked if he had converted to Christianity because he officiated at the final of an annual Iranian-Armenian football...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Apr 2020 | News
An Iranian Christian convert serving a 10-year prison sentence for his membership of a Tehran house-church has written a letter thanking those who are praying for him. Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh, who is 58 years old, remains in the Iranian capital’s Evin Prison, despite...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 15 Apr 2020 | Features
Ebrahim Firouzi tells Article18’s advocacy director, Mansour Borji, about the months he has spent in exile since his release from six years in prison in November. Ebrahim’s two-year term in exile was recently extended by 11 months owing to an unauthorised leave of...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 14 Apr 2020 | News
Iranian woman convert Fatemeh (Aylar) Bakhtari has been told she does not need to return to prison to complete her sentence. The 36-year-old is the third convert in the past few weeks to receive such news, after Rokhsareh (Mahrokh) Ghanbari, 62, and Amin Khaki, 36....
