My name is Masoumeh Dashti Aqizadeh, but I prefer to be called Sahar. I was born in November 1981 into a Muslim family in Lenjan County in Isfahan Province. I remember well the day I became a Christian – it was 23 October 2001…

As protests in Iran continue and supporters hold rallies around the world in solidarity with the Iranian people, Article18’s Fred Petrossian is documenting the new and old struggles, including a mass protest scheduled to take place on 22 October in Berlin.

A second Christian convert has been unexpectedly pardoned and released from Tehran’s Evin Prison just a day after the release of a 61-year-old man who had spent nearly five years in prison.

British-Iranian bishop Guli Francis-Dehqani has written and recorded prayers for the Iran, as protests continue in the wake of the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini.

Article18 has joined with 42 other civil-society groups in calling on the UN Human Rights Council to “urgently establish an […]

Christian prisoner of conscience Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh has been freed after nearly five years in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. Nasser […]

A fire at a Tehran prison housing hundreds of political prisoners, including a dozen Christians, caused widespread alarm on Saturday […]

Article18’s director, Mansour Borji, shares how he and his family have responded to the protests in Iran.

Article18’s Mansour Borji says the world needs more Brother Andrews: people who courageously slay giants and break the bonds of injustice, even when they wear the clothes of those in authority.

Bishop Guli Francis-Dehqani explains how her world changed as the events which led to the revolution of 1979 began to unfold.