by Steve Dew-Jones | 9 Apr 2020 | Features
Arash (John) Sedigh with his wife Azam and their five-year-old son Samuel. Arash Sedigh went to the UN offices in Makassar, Indonesia for more than 250 days in a row last year to plead for his family’s resettlement to be made a priority. It is approaching seven years...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Apr 2020 | News
Mahrokh Ghanbari (right) has been told she does not need to return to prison. Aylar Bakhtari (left) and Amin Khaki have had their leave extended by 15 days. A 62-year-old Iranian woman convert to Christianity has been told she does not need to return to prison to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Mar 2020 | News
The UK’s new guidelines for asylum cases involving Iranian Christian converts acknowledge there is a “real risk” of persecution for “ordinary” Christians in Iran, and not just leaders or those with a “particularly evangelical zeal”. The guidelines have been...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 17 Mar 2020 | News
Clockwise from top left: Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh, Zaman Fadaie, Mohammad Reza Omidi, and Yousef Nadarkhani. Four Iranian Christians serving ten-year sentences in Tehran’s Evin Prison are being denied temporary release even though their requests for retrials have been...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 13 Mar 2020 | News
A Christian convert serving two years in internal exile in a remote southeastern Iranian city has had his exile extended for a further 11 months owing to an unauthorised leave of absence. Ebrahim Firouzi, who is 34, began his exile on 12 November 2019, just two weeks...
