by Steve Dew-Jones | 27 Jun 2023 | News
A house-church leader who has already spent nearly five years in prison, and was once flogged for drinking Communion wine, has been flogged a second time and now faces two years in exile. Zaman Fadaie, who is known as Saheb, was flogged again on Sunday, 25 June,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Jun 2023 | News
Over the past three years, Article18 has reported on numerous occasions about a group of Iranian Christians in Sweden who have taken to the streets of Stockholm to protest about rights abuses in their home country. The “I Am a Christian Too” protesters have campaigned...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Jun 2023 | News
There is a “critical need” for new resettlement opportunities and sponsorship programmes for Iranian Christian refugees in Turkey, says a new joint report published today on World Refugee Day by Article18 and three partner organisations. The report, which is a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Jun 2023 | Reports
There is a “critical need” for new resettlement opportunities and sponsorship programmes for Iranian Christian refugees in Turkey, says a new joint report published today on World Refugee Day by Article18 and three partner organisations. The report, which is a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Jun 2023 | Features
When he was arrested, Vahid Hakani told his interrogator he hadn’t known until that day “that gathering and worshipping and praying in the name of Christ is not legal in Iran”. His interrogator wanted him to confess that he was part of a “deviant Christian sect”, and...