by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Jul 2024 | Analysis
By Fred Petrossian Iran’s former foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has emphasised “positive discrimination” for women and minorities in his new role as head of the transitional council responsible for evaluating governmental candidates, but it is the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Jul 2024 | News
Article18 has submitted a joint report to the UN Human Rights Council ahead of Iran’s upcoming Universal Periodic Review, highlighting the ongoing rights violations experienced by Christians. In the submission, written in collaboration with partner organisations Open...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Jul 2024 | Analysis
By Fred Petrossian Iran’s hand-picked presidential candidates have used some nice phrases in recent weeks about the rights and “dignity” of the people of Iran in general, and women and minorities in particular, but they have lacked any substance. The Supreme Leader,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Jun 2024 | News
“Many people throughout the world have reacted with shock to the murders of three Protestant clergymen in recent months.” So wrote the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran following the killings of Bishop Haik...
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,...
