by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Mar 2023 | Witness Statements
For a summary of Shadi’s story, you can read our feature article here. Introduction 1. My name is Shadi Noveiri Gilani. After becoming a Christian, I was known by two names: Sheilan and Raha. I was born in Bandar Anzali [in Gilan Province, north Iran] in 1990...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Mar 2023 | News
A fifth convert has been released as part of the mass pardoning of political prisoners, while there are reports two more may also have been freed, perhaps taking the total to as many as seven within the past month. Milad Goodarzi, who was nearly halfway through a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Mar 2023 | Notes from Prison
This is the fifth in a series of articles by Mojtaba Hosseini, an Iranian convert to Christianity who spent more than three years in prison in the southern city of Shiraz because of his membership of a house-church. Mojtaba’s first note from...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Mar 2023 | News
Yousef Nadarkhani, Bible in hand, stands in front of the only church in Rasht that offered services in the national language of Persian, before its forcible closure. Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, who was released on Sunday after nearly five years’ arbitrary detention in...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Mar 2023 | News
An Iranian pastor once sentenced to death for his “apostasy” has been “pardoned” and released after nearly five years in Tehran’s Evin Prison, but told he still faces flogging and two years’ exile 2,000km from his home. Yousef Nadarkhani, whose death sentence was...
