The types of psychological – and in some instances physical – torture shown in The Seed of the Sacred Fig mirror the testimonies of the dozens of Christians interviewed by Article18 in recent years.

Iranian-Armenian pastor Joseph Shahbazian remains in detention in Tehran’s Evin Prison nearly a month after his re-arrest and continues to […]

Iranian Christian convert Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh remains on hunger strike in Tehran’s Evin Prison, nearly one month after his re-arrest. […]

When Iranian-American journalist Tara Jamali returned to Iran after an absence of 20 years, she was shocked to discover the church she attended as a student boarded up.

Plainclothes officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) raided a gathering of around 80 Christians in a garden in […]

Two Christians who were “pardoned” and released after a combined six years in prison on charges related to their leadership of house-churches have been re-arrested.

The European Parliament has included specific mention of the pressures Christian converts face in its latest resolution on Iran.

Two side events the day before Iran’s Universal Periodic Review at the United Nations highlight once again the chasm between what the Islamic Republic says about its treatment of religious minorities and the reality of their lived experience.

A comprehensive overview of Article18’s joint side event at the UN in Geneva on 23 January, featuring two UN Special Rapporteurs.

Two infamous judges counted among Iran’s so-called “Judges of Death” for handing out sentences of execution to opponents of the […]