by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 May 2022 | Witness Statements
For a summary of Nima’s story, you can read our feature article here. Background 1. My name is Nima Rezaei and I was born in 1979 in the city of Sari, in Mazandaran province [northern Iran]. When I was 40 days old, my father died in an accident. Since my mother was...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 9 May 2022 | News
Left to right: Behnam Akhlaghi, Morteza Mashoodkari, Ayoob Poor-Rezazadeh, Ahmad Sarparast, and Babak Hosseinzadeh. Four “Church of Iran” members already facing criminal charges relating to the practice of their faith, with two having spent over two years...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 May 2022 | News
An Iranian-Armenian Christian faces 10 years in prison for teaching other Christians in his home, or what a notorious judge called “propaganda contrary to and disturbing to the holy religion of Islam”. Anooshavan Avedian, who will celebrate his 60th birthday on...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 May 2022 | News
A group of Persian-speaking Christians protesting in Stockholm on International Workers’ Day. (Photo: Twitter @iamchristiantoo) Twenty-five Iranian Christians have signed a joint statement highlighting the Islamic Republic’s deprivation of Persian-speaking...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Apr 2022 | News
Arbitrarily detained pastor Yousef Nadarkhani must return to Tehran’s Evin Prison today after enjoying his first visit home in nearly four years. The pastor, once sentenced to death for “apostasy”, has been serving a 10-year sentence – later reduced to six...
