by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Apr 2024 | News
Three prisoners of conscience convicted on charges related to Christianity have been sponsored by German politicians. Mina Khajavi, Mehdi (Yasser) Akbari and Abdolreza (Matthias) Ali-Haghnejad, who are serving a combined 22 years in prison as a result of their...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Mar 2024 | News
A Christian convert who was baptised in a church in Malaysia has been sentenced to two years in prison in Iran for “acting against national security by connecting with ‘Zionist’ Christian organisations”. Laleh Saati, who is 45 years old, returned to Iran in 2017,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Mar 2024 | News
Article18 has today joined over 40 other human rights groups in calling for the renewal of the mandates of the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran and Fact-Finding Mission.* In a letter sent today to all member states at the Human Rights Council in Geneva,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Mar 2024 | News
UN Special Rapporteur Javaid Rehman has told the Islamic Republic of Iran to “end the criminalisation of the peaceful expression of faith” and “refrain from persecuting peaceful religious gatherings in private homes and other premises”. “In many cases, members of...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Mar 2024 | News
A house-church member in a city near Tehran has been charged with “teaching activities that educate in a deviant way contrary to the holy religion of Islam, through making false religious claims”. Hossein Sha’bani, who is 47 years old and known as Youhana, was...
