by Steve Dew-Jones | 27 Oct 2021 | News
Left to right: Babak Hosseinzadeh, Behnam Akhlaghi and Saheb Fadaie. Three Iranian converts serving long prison sentences for their membership of a house-church have written a joint letter and recorded video statements, asking where they should worship once they are...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Oct 2021 | News
An Iranian convert who has spent more than three years in Tehran’s Evin Prison for leading a house-church was told yesterday he has been denied parole for a second time – despite never applying for it. Zaman (Saheb) Fadaie, who is 40 years old, has been in...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Oct 2021 | News
Left to right: Mohammad Ali (Davoud) Torabi, Mohammad Kayidgap, Esmaeil Narimanpour, and Alireza Varak-Shah. Four Iranian Christian converts are growing increasingly frustrated by intelligence agents’ continued refusal to return personal belongings confiscated from...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Oct 2021 | News
Left to right: Somayeh (Sonya) Sadegh, Mina Khajavi, and Joseph Shahbazian. Five Iranian Christians who were among dozens arrested during coordinated raids on house-churches in three cities last year were summoned on Saturday to give their final defence before a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Oct 2021 | Witness Statements
For a summary of Leila and Peyman’s story, you can read our feature article here. Conversion Leila 1. My name is Leila Fooladi Helabad and I was born in 1976 in Isfahan. In around 2001, I was studying maths in Tehran while my family lived in Isfahan, and I felt...