by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Sep 2019 | News
(Photo: Mehr) Iran’s Minister of Education says children who profess an unrecognised religious faith at school are engaging in “propaganda” and should be banned. Mohsen Haji Mirzaei made the remarks yesterday at a cabinet meeting, ahead of the new school term. He...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Sep 2019 | News
Embed from Getty Images Researchers at an international Christian charity have urged immigration officials in countries where Iranian converts make asylum claims to focus their questions on the claimant’s “personal experience of Christianity”, rather than the extent...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 31 Aug 2019 | News
Fatemeh Bakhtari presented herself at Tehran’s Evin Prison today to begin her one-year jail sentence. Fatemeh, who is 35 years old and known as Aylar, was informed in May that her appeal against her sentence, for “propaganda against the regime”, had failed. Last...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Aug 2019 | News
Mostafa Rahimi (Hengaw Organization for Human Rights) An Iranian bookseller has been sentenced to three months and one day in prison for selling copies of the Bible, according to a Kurdish rights group. Mostafa Rahimi was reportedly first arrested on 11 June in Bukan,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Aug 2019 | News
Dabrina Bet-Tamraz (Twitter) The daughter of an Iranian-Assyrian couple facing jail time for their Christian activities has said she believes the authorities are trying to draw out court proceedings for as long as possible in the hope they leave the country. An appeal...
