by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Jan 2024 | News
A Christian convert arrested last week remains in detention in an unknown location, according to a report by an Iranian Christian news site. Iman Golzar was arrested at his home in Dezful, western Iran, at midnight on 16 January by plainclothes agents of the Ministry...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 17 Jan 2024 | News
Iran has once again been named among the top 10 worst persecutors of Christians. Iran ranks in 9th place on the 2024 World Watch List, published today by Article18’s partner organisation, Open Doors International. Last year Iran ranked in 8th place, but Iran’s overall...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Jan 2024 | News
A lawyer who has represented several Iranian Christians in court has been summoned to the prosecutor’s office in the city where he used to live and work. Iman Soleimani, whose previous clients include former prisoners of conscience Joseph Shahbazian and Nasser Navard...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Jan 2024 | News
Iranian Christians in Turkey are no longer eligible for resettlement to the US as part of the refugee sponsorship programme launched last year, despite Iran being re-designated last week as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) by the US Secretary of State for “having...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Jan 2024 | News
A 60-year-old Iranian Christian convert has been summoned to begin her six-year prison sentence for “acting against national security by promoting ‘Zionist’ Christianity” through leadership of a house-church. Mina Khajavi, who was arrested back in 2020, was sentenced...
