by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Sep 2018 | News
Article18’s Mansour Borji addresses the conference (Norge IDAG) Iranian converts to Christianity are at “constant risk” of arrest, Article18’s Advocacy Director, Mansour Borji, told a conference in Norway today. “I want to ask Christians all over the world to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Aug 2018 | News
Clockwise from top-left: Hadi Asgari, Shamiram Issavi, Amin Afshar-Naderi and Victor Bet-Tamraz. Following the publication of numerous reports by Article18 on the violation of the rights of a group of Iranian Christians, Amnesty International today issued an...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 Aug 2018 | News
Shapoor Jozi and his wife Parastou Zariftash are among the 12 The Islamic Revolutionary Court of Bushehr has sentenced 12 Christians to one year’s imprisonment each for “propaganda against the Islamic Republic for the benefit of Christianity”. These...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 Aug 2018 | News
Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh, a Christian convert serving a 10-year sentence in Tehran’s Evin prison for “acting against national security through the establishment of house churches”, says: “It’s clear to all, including the prison authorities, judges, lawyers and my...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Jul 2018 | News
Left to right: Saheb Fadaie, Yousef Nadarkhani, Yasser Mossayebzadeh, and Youhan Omidi. On Sunday morning, 22 July, plainclothes officers attacked the Rasht home of “Church of Iran” pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, and, after beating him and his 16-year-old son, took him...
