An Iranian Christian prisoner of conscience has written about his grief at the loss of his only son and his struggle to understand the reason for his imprisonment, in a letter smuggled out of prison.
Amid and Sanaz’s son Danial was just four years old when Ministry of Intelligence agents came to arrest his parents.
My name is Aliasghar Fathollahi, but I am known as Amid Fathi, and my name is Sanaz Karami. In May 2016, we were sentenced to one years in prison for “propaganda against the Islamic Republic regime in favour of hostile groups”.
An Iranian pastor who has spent most of the past four years behind bars has now been transferred to another […]
Shilan Oraminejad, Razieh (Maral) Kohzady, and Zahra (Yalda) Heidary were arrested in their homes early in the morning of 9 May by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence.
A house-church leader who has already spent nearly five years in prison, and was once flogged for drinking Communion wine, has been flogged a second time and now faces two years in exile.
Over the past three years, Article18 has reported on numerous occasions about a group of Iranian Christians in Sweden who […]
There is a “critical need” for new resettlement opportunities and sponsorship programmes for Iranian Christian refugees in Turkey, says a […]
When he was arrested, Vahid Hakani told his interrogator he hadn’t known until that day “that gathering and worshipping and […]
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