by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Dec 2023 | News
An Armenian citizen, who was one of over 100 Christians arrested in Iran this summer, remains detained in Evin Prison more than four months later. Hakop Gochumyan, 35, was visiting Iran with his wife Elisa, who is an Iranian-Armenian, and their two children, when they...
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...
