by Steve Dew-Jones | 31 Dec 2014 | News
Pastor Farshid Fathi was sentenced to another year in prison on Monday morning, 29 December, for alleged possession of alcohol. His sentencing took place at Branch 15 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran, and was presided over by Judge Salavati. Farshid, who...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Dec 2014 | News
Pastor Victor Bet-Tamraz, former leader of the Assyrian Pentecostal Church of Tehran (Shahrara), was arrested on Friday, 26 December, along with two of his friends, Amin Afshar-Naderi and Kavian Fallah-Mohammadi, as they celebrated Christmas together. Ten plainclothes...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Dec 2014 | News
An appeals court in Karaj has acquitted two members of the “Church of Iran” of the serious crimes of “moharebeh” (waging war against God) and “spreading corruption on Earth”. Reza Rabbani, known as Silas, and Abdolreza Ali-Haghnejad, known as Matthias, were acquitted...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Nov 2014 | News
A Christian woman prisoner who has been on temporary leave was insulted and strip-searched when she returned to Evin Prison. Maryam (Nasim) Naghash Zargaran had been out of prison for four days – for the first time in 16 months of imprisonment. When she returned...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 2 Sep 2014 | News
Zeinab Akbari and Hamidreza Borhani (Photo: HRANA) At least five Christian converts have been arrested in Isfahan over the past two days. The latest of these arrests took place this morning, when Hamidreza Borhani and his wife Zeinab Akbari were arrested during a raid...
