by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Jun 2019 | Features
Mariet Michaelian gave birth to her firstborn, Anna, on the day it was confirmed her father had been murdered. Tateos Michaelian, who led an Armenian evangelical church in Tehran and had been an outspoken critic of the Iranian regime’s mistreatment of Christians, had...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Jun 2019 | News
Tomorrow will be the 25th anniversary of the forced disappearance of Tateos Michaelian, an outspoken Iranian Armenian church leader and Bible translator who was found dead three days after going missing. His son identified his body, which according to one report was...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Jun 2019 | News
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the forced disappearance of Mehdi Dibaj, a Christian convert who had been released from nine years in prison just five months earlier. Mehdi’s body was found days later in a park in a suburb of Tehran, with multiple stab wounds to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 17 Jun 2019 | News
Aliakbar Gorji Azandaryani (http://www.lvp.ir/) A senior legal adviser to the Iranian president has publicly questioned the legality of the recent closure of a church and banning of religious-minority teachers from nursery schools. Aliakbar Gorji...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Jun 2019 | News
Iran’s continued violations of religious freedom are highlighted in the UK Foreign Office’s latest global Human Rights and Democracy report, published yesterday. The comprehensive annual report lists Iran among 29 “human rights priority countries”,...
