by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 Jul 2014 | News
Security agents arrested three members of the “Church of Iran” denomination in Bandar Anzali on Saturday, 5 July. The three men were arrested at the home of Abdolreza (Matthias) Ali-Haghnejad, who is a member of the church in Bandar Anzali. The other two, Mohammad...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 2 Jul 2014 | News
Christian prisoner Vahid Hakani has resumed his hunger strike in Shiraz’s Adel Abad Prison. He began his hunger strike on 20 March, after judicial authorities denied his request for early release, and to protest against poor conditions in prison. That hunger strike...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Jun 2014 | News
Six Christian converts have been arrested in Shiraz and taken to an unknown location. The arrests took place on Friday, 20 June, at the house of a man known only by his surname, Fazli. In addition to Mr Fazli and his wife, Farkhondeh, two other women – Mitra...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 May 2014 | News
Christian prisoner Saeed Abedini, who has been receiving hospital treatment for two months, was beaten before he was taken back to prison, his wife says. Saeed, who is serving an eight-year prison sentence for “setting up house churches in order to disrupt...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 May 2014 | News
One of four Christian converts detained in Shiraz’s Adel Abad Prison for over two years has been granted conditional release. Mohammed Reza Partovi was serving a sentence of three years and eight months, alongside fellow converts Vahid Hakani, Mojtaba Hosseini and...
