by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Nov 2022 | News
(Photo: AP) The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has condemned the sentencing to death of an Iranian protester on “religiously-grounded charges” and warned of the “credible” threat of “large-scale executions in the coming weeks”. On Sunday, a Tehran...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Nov 2022 | News
Assyrian parliamentary representative Sharli Envieh. Iran’s Assyrian Christian minority have been warned by their parliamentary representative and church leaders to have no further involvement in the ongoing protests. Article18 was informed yesterday by sources...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Nov 2022 | News
Left to right: Babak Paknia, Bahar Sahraian, and Mustafa Nili. More than 30 lawyers, including at least three involved in defending Christian converts, have been arrested in recent weeks in cities across Iran. The arrests come as thousands of protesters await trial,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 Nov 2022 | Analysis
Accusations that members of religious minorities, including Christians, are engaged in unspecified “actions against national security” are deliberately vague in order “to mislead the public”, says the author of a recent report on religious propaganda in Iran. The...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Nov 2022 | Analysis
Field House in London, UK, where many asylum cases are decided. (Photo: righttoremain.org.uk) The question of how much weight should be given to the testimony of church members and leaders in assessing the credibility of asylum-seekers’ claims to have converted to...
