by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Aug 2024 | News
One of the eight Christian converts recently sentenced to a combined 45 years in prison for their involvement in house-churches has died in a road traffic accident. Bijan Gholizadeh, who was a father to three daughters, was killed on Saturday, 24 August, while driving...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 Aug 2024 | Features
Maryam Jalili was 40 years old when she became a Christian, and by then had already been through so much. At the age of just 17, Maryam’s firstborn son, who had been born in the year of the Islamic Revolution of 1979, died after contracting meningitis. Then, while...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 Aug 2024 | Witness Statements
For a summary of Maryam’s story, you can read our feature article here. Background 1. My name is Maryam and I was born in 1964 in Neyshabur [northeast Iran]. I had four sisters and two brothers. My father was a military man, and as a result he was extremely strict in...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Aug 2024 | News
A new report from the United Nations’ Fact-Finding Mission says ethnic and religious minorities were singled out in the Iran regime’s crackdown on the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement. The advocacy paper, ‘”They have dehumanised us”: Minority rights...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Jul 2024 | News
A Christian convert serving a two-year prison sentence for “acting against national security by connecting with ‘Zionist’ Christian organisations” has reportedly been threatened with another conviction as a result of the publicity her case has received. According to...
