The US State Department’s latest annual report on international religious freedom includes a comprehensive overview of Iran’s continued persecution of […]
Article18 reported last week that four Iranian Christian converts from the northern city of Rasht had been summoned to begin […]
Article18 has submitted a new report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, highlighting the “multiple layers” of religious-freedom violations […]
Ismaeil Maghrebinejad initially faced four charges after his arrest on 25 January 2019: “propaganda against the state”, “apostasy”, “insulting Islamic sacred beliefs” and “membership of a group hostile to the regime”.
Yet another appeal hearing in the long-running court cases against an Iranian-Assyrian pastor, his wife and three Christian converts was […]
Four Iranian Christian converts have been summoned to begin their five-year jail sentences for leading house-churches, for which they were […]
Article18 has submitted a new report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, highlighting the “multiple layers” of religious-freedom violations faced by […]
Fires have been reported at three sites belonging to religious minorities, including a Christian cemetery, in just a few days […]
An Iranian Anglican Church member has been reconvicted of membership of a “Zionist Evangelical Christian” group “hostile to the regime” […]
Four Iranian converts to Christianity have been sent to Lakan Prison in the northern city of Rasht, having been unable […]