by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Dec 2021 | News
A convert serving a six-year prison sentence for leading a house-church has queried how the head of Iran’s judiciary can speak about “defending human rights” while people like him are in prison only for their beliefs. In a voice message from prison, Saheb Fadaie...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Dec 2021 | Analysis
Article18 asks human rights lawyer Hossein Ahmadiniaz about the practical implications for Iran’s Christian prisoners of conscience of the recent Supreme Court ruling, which found that house-church activities and the promotion of Christianity did not constitute...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Nov 2021 | Features
It was Marjan and Mani’s eight-year-old daughter, Dina, who opened the door when their home was raided by intelligence agents in November 2015, an event that changed all their lives forever. The family fled the country just four months later, and now, like so many...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Nov 2021 | Witness Statements
For a summary of Marjan and Mani’s story, you can read our feature article here. Background Mani 1. My name is Mohsen (Mani) Aliabady Ravari, and I was born in 1978 in Tehran. My wife Manizheh (Marjan) Bagheri was born in 1983 in Hamedan. We had a film...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Nov 2021 | News
Clockwise from top-left: Shahrooz Eslamdoust, Mehdi Khatibi, Babak Hosseinzadeh, Hossein Kadivar, Mohammad Vafadar, Abdolreza (Matthias) Ali-Haghnejad, Behnam Akhlaghi, Khalil Dehghanpour, Kamal Naamanian. Iran’s Supreme Court has ruled that nine...
