by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Jul 2022 | News
The women’s ward of Lakan Prison in Rasht (Photo: Mojnews) An Iranian mother-of-three serving a two-year sentence for “spreading ‘Zionist’ Christianity” has been denied access to a scheme that would have allowed her to spend most of her time outside prison...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Jul 2022 | News
Mojtaba Hosseini (left), alongside three other survivors of apostasy and blasphemy laws around the world. Iranian Christian convert Mojtaba Hosseini was one of the speakers at a fringe event on the side of the International Ministerial on Freedom of Religion or Belief...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 Jul 2022 | News
An Iranian Christian prisoner of conscience recently adopted by the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief has been denied parole for a fifth time. Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh, who is 60 years old, has been in prison...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Jul 2022 | Reports
Christian converts are among the groups likely to face “heightened levels of repression” as a result of last year’s controversial amendments to the penal code, according to a new report. The report, ‘Iran: New Penal Code provisions as tools for further attacks on the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Jul 2022 | News
Christian converts are among the groups likely to face “heightened levels of repression” as a result of last year’s controversial amendments to the penal code, according to a new report. The report, ‘Iran: New Penal Code provisions as tools for further attacks on the...
