by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Jan 2013 | News
Retired Iranian-Armenian pastor Vruir Avanessian has been released on bail after two weeks in detention. Pastor Vruir was arrested on 27 December alongside a number of converts to Christianity, and taken to Evin Prison. During his detention, the pastor, who...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Dec 2012 | News
Left to right: Homayoun Shekoohi, Mojtaba Hosseini, Vahid Hakani, and Mohammad Reza Partovi. Article18’s Advocacy Director, Mansour Borji, has spoken to Radio Farda’s Fred Petrossian about the situation of four Christian prisoners in Shiraz. In the article, Borji...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Nov 2012 | News
Article18’s Advocacy Director, Mansour Borji, has expressed “grave concern” about the physical condition of imprisoned church leader Behnam Irani. “Various reports describe Behnam’s physical condition as serious and we are concerned about his...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Jun 2012 | News
A church in western Tehran has been forced to close by order of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps. The pastor of the church, Robert Gogtapeh, was informed of the decision on 29 May. Then, last Tuesday, Revolutionary Guard intelligence agents ordered the Council of the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Jun 2012 | News
Mehrdad Sajjadi, a leader at the Emmanuel Evangelical Church in Tehran, was arrested together with his wife Forough Dashtiani on Thursday 24 May in Karaj. The news follows an alarming trend in closures and imposed restrictions on churches that hold services in the...
