by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Jul 2019 | News
Left to right: Yaghoob Nateghi, Milad Goodarzi, Amin Khaki, Alireza Nourmohammadi and Shahab Shahi. Five Iranian converts submitted themselves to the central detention centre in Karaj on Saturday to begin their jail sentences for “propaganda against the state”. Manoto...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Jul 2019 | Reports
Although Christians in the Armenian and Assyrian churches may practise their faith within strict confines, persecution in Iran is on the rise for others and most of it is targeted at Christians from a Muslim background and Protestant Christians. Just before...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Jul 2019 | News
Left to right: Pooriya Peyma, Fatemeh Talebi, Maryam Falahi, Sam Khosravi, Khatoon Fatolahzadeh, Sasan Khosravi, Marjan Falahi, and Habib Heydari Eight converts to Christianity, including five members of one family, were arrested in the southwestern city of Bushehr on...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Jul 2019 | News
Left to right: Simin Fahandej, Javaid Rehman, Hamid Gharagozloo, Bob Blackman MP, Mattie Heaven, and Richard Ratcliffe. The UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran spoke yesterday of his “serious concern” over the “disturbing” mistreatment of converts to...