by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Jan 2019 | News
Amnesty International has called 2018 Iran’s “year of shame” for its “chilling” crackdown on the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly. The charity’s new report, which focuses on the more than 7,000 people arrested for partaking in...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Jan 2019 | News
The spiritual leader of Iran’s Sunni minority says the country’s religious minorities continue to suffer discrimination, despite the pledges of the leaders of the revolution to ensure equal treatment for all. Molavi Abdol-Hamid (Radio Farda) Molavi Abdol-Hamid, 72,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Jan 2019 | News
Christian convert Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh is now one year into his ten-year jail sentence for “acting against national security through the establishment of ‘house churches’”. Nasser, who is 57 years old, was first arrested in June 2016 alongside three Azerbaijanis at...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Jan 2019 | Features
Iranian-Armenian church leader Haik Hovsepian disappeared on 19 January 1994. His family were notified of his death 11 days later, on 30 January. He was found with multiple stab wounds to his chest. Haik’s forced disappearance came just three days after the release...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Jan 2019 | News
Two converts were asked to renounce their faith during their appeal hearing on 15 January in Tehran. Saheb Fadaie and Fatemeh Bakhtari When Saheb Fadaie and Fatemeh Bakhtari refused, the presiding judges, Hassan Babaee and Ahmad Zargar, told them to expect their...
