by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Aug 2021 | News
Left to right: Mohammad Ali (Davoud) Torabi, Mohammad Kayidgap, Esmaeil Narimanpour, and Alireza Varak-Shah. Intelligence agents in the southwestern city of Dezful are reportedly refusing to hand back the personal belongings of four Christian converts recently charged...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 13 Aug 2021 | Features
When Arina’s brother came to visit her in prison, he told her that if she refused to give up her Christian faith, he would no longer consider her his sister. Like her interrogators before him, Arina’s brother told her she had been “deceived” into converting to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 13 Aug 2021 | Witness Statements
This is the first in our new series of Witness Statements. For a summary of Arina’s story, you can read our feature article here. Introduction 1. My name is Fatemeh (Arina) Zarei. I was born in 1975, in Isfahan, to a Muslim family with strong religious beliefs....
by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Aug 2021 | Reports
The “systematic” oppression of Christian converts in Iran is the focus of a new in-depth report by the US-based Iran Human Rights Documentation Center. Available in both English and Persian, the report highlights the myriad ways in which converts to Christianity have...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 9 Aug 2021 | News
Christian convert Reza Zaeemi was yesterday released from prison, on the condition he wears an electronic tag for the remainder of his nine-month sentence. He is also banned from leaving the country for two years following the completion of his sentence. Reza has...
