by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Aug 2022 | Reports
Iran’s “misinformation campaign” against religious minorities, including Christian converts, is the focus of a new report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. The report, written by Shahin Milani of the US-based Iran Human Rights Documentation...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Aug 2022 | News
Iran’s “misinformation campaign” against religious minorities, including Christian converts, is the focus of a new report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. The report, written by Shahin Milani of the US-based Iran Human Rights Documentation...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Jul 2022 | News
A grandfather in his late fifties who has cancer is one of four Christian converts still detained more than three weeks after their arrest at a house-church gathering in a conservative Shia Muslim region of northeast Iran. Gholamreza Keyvanmanesh is being held in...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Jul 2022 | News
Left to right: Ahmad Sarparast, Morteza Mashoodkari, and Ayoob Poor-Rezazadeh. Three house-church members already facing five years in prison for “engaging in propaganda and education of deviant beliefs contrary to the holy Sharia” have today been informed they must...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Jul 2022 | News
A Christian convert has been fined and “deprived of social rights” for five years for “engaging in educational activities contrary to the holy religion of Islam by establishing house-churches”. Rahmat Rostamipour, 49, must pay 6 million tomans (around $185) now and a...