by Steve Dew-Jones | 31 Aug 2019 | News
Fatemeh Bakhtari presented herself at Tehran’s Evin Prison today to begin her one-year jail sentence. Fatemeh, who is 35 years old and known as Aylar, was informed in May that her appeal against her sentence, for “propaganda against the regime”, had failed. Last...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Aug 2019 | News
Mostafa Rahimi (Hengaw Organization for Human Rights) An Iranian bookseller has been sentenced to three months and one day in prison for selling copies of the Bible, according to a Kurdish rights group. Mostafa Rahimi was reportedly first arrested on 11 June in Bukan,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Aug 2019 | News
Dabrina Bet-Tamraz (Twitter) The daughter of an Iranian-Assyrian couple facing jail time for their Christian activities has said she believes the authorities are trying to draw out court proceedings for as long as possible in the hope they leave the country. An appeal...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Aug 2019 | News
Vahid Roufegarbashi, known as Nathan, with his wife Mahsa and their three-year-old son Benjamin (Photo: Article18) An Iranian Christian couple now living as refugees in America are concerned for their families back home after both were targeted by the intelligence...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Aug 2019 | News
Javaid Rehman (UN Photo/Jean Marc Ferré/Flickr) Iran’s failure to uphold freedom of religion or belief is a central concern of the latest report by the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran. Javaid Rehman notes that, as a party to the...
