by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Apr 2021 | Analysis
This article was first published by the Washington, DC-based Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, part of Georgetown University, and is republished here with kind permission. Nazila Ghanea, director of International Human Rights Law Programmes at the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Apr 2021 | News
Iran’s Supreme Court is considering the retrial petitions for two high-profile cases involving Christian converts. The first relates to the prison sentences given to a 62-year-old man with advanced Parkinson’s disease, Homayoun Zhaveh, and his wife Sara Ahmadi, 43,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Apr 2021 | News
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has called on the US government to “prioritise” the resettlement of refugees who have experienced the “most egregious forms of religious persecution”, singling out “Iranian religious minorities” as an example. In...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Apr 2021 | Reports
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has called on the US government to “prioritise” the resettlement of refugees who have experienced the “most egregious forms of religious persecution”, singling out “Iranian religious minorities” as an example. In...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Apr 2021 | News
Left to right: Alireza Varak-Shah, Hojjat Lotfi Khalaf, Mohammad Ali (Davoud) Torabi, and Esmaeil Narimanpour. (MEC) Four Christian converts have been arrested and others summoned for interrogation by intelligence agents in the southwestern city of Dezful. Hojjat...
