by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Jun 2024 | Features
Rev Mehdi Dibaj’s final defence, before he was sentenced to death for “apostasy”, was published in full by The Times newspaper in January 1994. The pastor was released that same month after an international outcry but murdered just five months later,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Jun 2024 | News
Eight Iranian Christian converts have been sentenced to a combined total of nearly 45 years in prison. The eight, who are from the western city of Izeh, were among the at least 46 Iranian Christians arrested over the Christmas period, though until this moment it has...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Jun 2024 | News
A Christian convert arrested last month remains in detention in an unknown location, as his wife and two daughters grow increasingly concerned. Farrokh Kakaei, who will celebrate his 55th birthday later this month, was arrested at his home in Karaj on 26 May by four...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Jun 2024 | News
An Armenian Christian has been condemned to 10 years in prison in Iran despite his lawyer arguing that the case against him was so weak that the judge was forced to use a penal code provision enabling him to use his “intuition”. Hakop Gochumyan, who has been detained...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Jun 2024 | News
A Christian convert who was detained for over four months following his arrest on Christmas Eve has been sentenced to five years in prison for “acting against national security by communicating with Christian ‘Zionist’ organisations”. Esmaeil Narimanpour, who was...
