by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Feb 2019 | News
Three more members of the “Church of Iran” network in Rasht have been arrested, taking the total to nine in the past month. Babak Hosseinzadeh and Mehdi Khatibi were arrested at two separate “house churches” on Saturday evening, reports Middle East Concern. ...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Feb 2019 | News
Amnesty appealed for release of (clockwise from top left): Hadi Asgari, Shamiram Issavi, Amin Afshar-Naderi, Victor Bet-Tamraz. Iran’s “systematic violation” of freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) was just one of the ways the 40-year-old regime “suppressed” human...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Feb 2019 | News
A video has been posted online showing a desecrated Christian cemetery in Kerman. “I’m in Kerman and this used to be a Christian cemetery… But all the graves have been dug up and the bodies taken away,” says the journalist reporting for Manoto TV, a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Feb 2019 | News
Twenty-six-year-old convert to Christianity Sina Moloudian has been charged with “propaganda against the state through the promotion of the Christian faith and the distribution of Bibles”. Sina was released from Isfahan’s Dastgerd Prison on 4 February after posting...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Feb 2019 | News
L to R: Kamal Naamanian, Mohammad Vafadar and Shahrooz Eslamdoust (Middle East Concern) Three more members of the imprisoned pastor Yousef Nadarkhani’s “Church of Iran” group in Rasht have been arrested and taken to an unknown location. Kamal Naamanian, Mohammad...
