by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Sep 2013 | News
Maryam Naghash Zargaran has been transferred to Tehran’s Modarres Hospital after suffering an apparent heart attack. The Christian convert, who is serving a four-year sentence in Evin Prison, has a long-term heart condition and has previously undergone heart surgery....
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Sep 2013 | News
Christian converts Maryam Jalili and Mitra Rahmati are among more than a dozen political prisoners to have been released on the eve of President Hassan Rouhani’s trip to the UN in New York. The two Christians had only around one and a half months left of their...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 13 Aug 2013 | News
Three Christian converts arrested last month in the north-western city of Tabriz remain in detention. Farshid Modares, Mohammad Reza Piri and Yashar Farzin-No were arrested by security forces on 11 July. There is still no information about the charges they are facing....
by Steve Dew-Jones | 31 Jul 2013 | News
Christian convert Mostafa Bordbar has been sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for “gathering with intent to commit crimes against Iranian national security”. The verdict, which was communicated today to his lawyer, Shima Ghosheh, was issued by Branch 26...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Jul 2013 | News
The Revolutionary Court in Shiraz on Tuesday 16 July handed heavy jail sentences to eight members of the “Church of Iran”. Mohammad (Vahid) Roghangir was sentenced to six years in prison; Massoud Rezaei to five; Mehdi Ameruni and Bigan Farokhpour Haghighi to three;...
