by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Jul 2022 | Features
“Sometimes I feel like I’ve waste my whole life.” These are the words of Iman Ghaznavian Haghighi, an Iranian Christian who has been living as a refugee in Turkey for nearly a decade now. After arriving in 2013 aged 27, Iman now finds himself in his late 30s, still...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 30 Jun 2022 | Analysis
By Mansour Borji Saheb Fadaie with his wife, Marjan, and their 15-year-old daughter, Martha. 17 June marked the 41st birthday of Saheb Fadaie, currently serving a 10-year prison sentence – reduced to six years – for “acting against national security by...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Jun 2022 | News
After two years in prison and nearly two more in internal exile over 1,000km from his home and family – not to mention being flogged for drinking Communion wine – Mohammad Reza (Youhan) Omidi is finally free, at least for now. The 49-year-old, who begun...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Jun 2022 | News
Left to right: Maryam (Khadijeh) Mohammadi, Anooshavan Avedian, and Abbas Souri. A 60-year-old Iranian-Armenian Christian is awaiting a summons to begin his 10-year prison sentence for “engaging in propaganda contrary to and disturbing to the holy religion of Islam”....
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Jun 2022 | News
Photographs showing some of the Christian events that took place at the retreat centre, and of the confiscation order. A Protestant Church-owned retreat centre appropriated four years ago by an institution headed by Iran’s Supreme Leader is now in the process of being...
