This case study was used as part of a UK government-funded report into the persecution of Christians worldwide. Case referenced by Article18, […]

A senior legal adviser to the Iranian president has publicly questioned the legality of the recent closure of a church and banning of […]

Iran’s continued violations of religious freedom are highlighted in the UK Foreign Office’s latest global Human Rights and Democracy report, […]

The Iranian government has banned members of religious minorities from teaching in nursery schools, except in special schools where all […]

The UN General Assembly yesterday voted to adopt 22 August as the annual UN International Day Commemorating the Victims of […]

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom’s (USCIRF) Tony Perkins says it’s “absurd” that Christians in Iran “who practise their […]

Only 48 hours after Article18 published news of the forced closure of a church in the northwestern city of Tabriz, the Assyrian […]

A member of Iran’s Expediency Council of religious leaders appointed in an advisory capacity by the Supreme Leader has implied […]

The Assyrian Christian community in the northwestern city of Tabriz has been left it a state of shock, after the […]

Two Iranian converts to Christianity have been informed that their jail sentences have been upheld, four months after their appeal […]