by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Feb 2023 | News
A third Christian convert was among the prisoners pardoned and released earlier this month, Article18 can now confirm. Mehdi Rokhparvar, who was serving a five-year sentence for “acting against national security” by “forming an illegal evangelical Christian group”,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Feb 2023 | Notes from Prison
This is the fourth 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 | 22 Feb 2023 | Analysis
This extract of an interview conducted by the director of Human Rights Without Frontiers, Willy Fautré, was first published by the magazine Bitter Winter and is republished here with kind permission. Iranian-Assyrian Christian Dabrina Bet-Tamraz was forced to flee...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Feb 2023 | Features, News
Parsa’s story is different from a lot of other Iranian Christians who have experienced persecution. For most, the primary source of persecution is the state, but in Parsa’s case, although he was also pressured by the security forces, the main point of pressure...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Feb 2023 | News, Witness Statements
For a summary of Parsa’s story, you can read our feature article here. Background 1. My name is Ali Mostafaei, known as Parsa. I was born in June 1991 in Shahriar, Tehran, to a large and relatively well-off family. I have three sisters and three brothers, and I’m the...
