by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Apr 2019 | News
Embed from Getty Images Iran remains among the world’s most egregious violators of religious freedom, according to the 20th annual report of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). The report, released today, recommends that, as in every...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Apr 2019 | Reports
Iran remains among the world’s most egregious violators of religious freedom, according to the 20th annual report of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). The report, released today, recommends that, as in every year since 1999, Iran be...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Apr 2019 | News
Left to right: Shapoor Jozi, Parastou Zariftash, and Payam Kharaman Sixteen converts to Christianity in the southwestern city of Bushehr are facing time in prison after their convictions were upheld at an appeal hearing last month. Twelve have been sentenced to a year...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Apr 2019 | News
An Iranian-Armenian Christian serving a five-year jail sentence for “acting against national security through house-church activities” was permitted temporary leave over Easter, Article18 can reveal. Sevada Aghasar (left) singing with his choir at St. Gregory’s Church...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Apr 2019 | News
Representatives of Iran’s ethnic religious minorities in the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Iranian Parliament) After the USA designated Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a “terrorist group”, representatives of Iran’s ethnic religious minorities in the Islamic Consultative...
