by Steve Dew-Jones | 15 Dec 2023 | Analysis
This article, written by Article18’s Fred Petrossian, analyses the ways in which education, art, urbanism and religious discourse have been weaponised by the Iranian state. It was first published on the website Global Voices, and is republished here with kind...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Dec 2023 | News
A former prisoner of conscience and his brother remain in detention in an unknown location after four house-church members were arrested yesterday during coordinated raids by intelligence agents on their homes and shops near Tehran. The name of the detainees cannot be...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Dec 2023 | Analysis
On the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, here are 10 rights that have been denied to Christians in Iran since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979. Article 3 – Right to Life At least 10 Iranian Christians have been...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Dec 2023 | News
A house-church leader serving a six-year sentence for “propagating Christianity” has returned to a prison on the other side of the country from his wife and daughter, after a first visit home since his sudden transfer five months ago. Abdolreza Ali Haghnejad, known as...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Nov 2023 | News
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution last week highlighting violations of human rights in Iran, including “ongoing severe limitations and increasing restrictions on the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief”. The resolution,...
