Iran has denied systematically persecuting Christians, in response to a formal enquiry by six senior UN rights experts.

Iran has risen to eighth place in the latest annual listing of the 50 countries in which the persecution of […]

Iranian Christian convert Amin Afshar-Naderi has spoken exclusively to Article18 about the “extreme difficulty” he has experienced in “six years […]

More details have emerged of the harsh treatment of four Christian converts sentenced in October to a combined 35 years […]

There are renewed fears over a parliamentary bill that threatens to facilitate the further repression of Iran’s religious minorities.

Peyman and Leila’s one-year-old daughter, Armita, was present when officers from Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence raided their house-church leadership meeting […]

In spite of what regime figures like to say about the “tolerance” of the Islamic Republic, from the early days of the revolution — as soon as they were firmly in power — the ayatollahs began a crackdown on civil and religious liberties.

The US State Department has re-designated Iran as a “Country of Particular Concern” for “engaging in or tolerating systematic, ongoing, egregious violations of religious freedom”.

Article18 has joined 36 other rights group in calling on UN member states to ratify the recently adopted resolution on […]

Iran’s religious minorities are today facing the greatest threat to their existence since the 1979 revolution, according to one expert.