by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Dec 2010 | News
Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, a convert from a Muslim background, has been sentenced to death for “apostasy”. Just one Christian leader has been executed for apostasy in Iran: Hossein Soodmand, who was hanged in Mashhad in December 1990. Yousef, who has been...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Dec 2010 | News
Twenty years since the hanging of Iranian pastor Hossein Soodmand, a memorial service will be held on Saturday, 4 December, in London. All members of British and Iranian churches have been invited. Hossein remains the only person officially executed on charges of...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 May 2010 | News
A number of reports have reached Article18 in recent days of the release on bail of several Christians, as well as the acquittal of women who spent nine months in prison. The details of each case is outlined below. Hamid Shafiee and Reyhaneh Aghajari This...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 30 Sep 2008 | News
The European Union has expressed concern over the Iranian parliament’s decision to pass a bill that would classify apostasy as a crime punishable by death, saying it would constitute “a serious infringement of the freedom of religion or belief, which includes the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Sep 2008 | News
A German bishop has condemned the passing through the Iranian parliament of a bill that would prescribe the death penalty for apostasy from Islam, calling it “totally unacceptable”. Bishop Martin Schindehütte, who presides over foreign affairs for the German...
