by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Jul 2025 | News
An Iranian Christian who fled after being sentenced to 10 years in prison for his membership of a house-church has been detained after being deported back to Iran from Turkey. Mehran Shamloui, who is 43 years old, fled Iran earlier this year after he and two other...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Jul 2025 | News
An Iranian pastor in California has called for the United States to “open the doors” to refugees after several of his church members – all asylum-seekers – were detained. Ara Torosian, an Iranian-American who himself arrived to the US as a refugee in 2010...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Jul 2025 | Prisoners
Christian convert Mehran is serving a 10-year sentence in Evin Prison on charges of “membership of an opposition group” (a house-church) and “propaganda activities contrary to Islamic law through foreign relations”. Mehran was first arrested in November 2024...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Jul 2025 | News
A new book by Article18’s Fred Petrossian seeks to explain why many Iranian Christian converts end up as refugees and asylum-seekers in the West. The book, ‘Why Christian Converts Flee Iran’, “tells a story that spans 46 years of suffering and resistance,” the author...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 2 Jul 2025 | News
The Islamic Republic of Iran has rejected the vast majority of substantive recommendations made by UN member states at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, including regarding its treatment of religious minorities. Of the 346 recommendations made in its fourth...
