by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Mar 2025 | News
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has called on the US government to ensure that religious refugees from Iran are always accepted, as it recommended once again that Iran be re-designated a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) for...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Mar 2025 | Analysis
Two Easters ago, the retiring Anglican archbishop responsible for the ailing diocese of Iran – Cyprus-based Englishman Michael Lewis – received a visit from a handful of his Iranian congregants. “If the Archbishop can’t come to Iran, Iran will come...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Mar 2025 | News
A Christian convert who had been on hunger strike in Tehran’s Evin Prison for 35 days to protest against the continued persecution of Christians in Iran has suffered a stroke. Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh, who is 63 years old and previously spent nearly five years in...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Mar 2025 | News
There are growing concerns over the health of an imprisoned Christian convert, who has a heart condition and was recently beaten for requesting a referral to a cardiologist. Amir-Ali Minaei, a 31-year-old from Tehran whose case has not been reported until now but...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Mar 2025 | News
The UN’s fact-finding mission (FFM) on Iran says it has only “scratched the surface” in “exposing the structural and institutional discrimination” against religious minorities, and called for the establishment of a follow-up body to investigate these and other rights...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Mar 2025 | News
Article18 has joined over 40 other rights groups and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi in calling for the renewal of the mandate of the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran. In a joint letter sent to UN Human Rights Council members this morning, ahead...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 17 Mar 2025 | News
Photographs have emerged in recent days showing the deterioration of a once renowned hospital in Iran that was founded and named after Christian missionaries. The “Missionary Hospital” in Kerman, southeastern Iran, which was built in the early 1900s, has not been used...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 14 Mar 2025 | Analysis
Having a place of worship has been described as an “integral” part of religious freedom at the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The comment was made by the World Evangelical Alliance’s (WEA) Janet Epp Buckingham in her introductory address to the 5 March side event,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 14 Mar 2025 | News
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran says religious and ethnic minorities in the country “face systemic discrimination, including arbitrary detention [and] unfair trials”. In her first report to the Human Rights...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Mar 2025 | News
A Christian convert arrested during a raid by Revolutionary Guards on a gathering of Christians in northern Iran last month has reportedly been released on bail of over $40,000, after being charged with “gathering and collusion” and “propaganda against the regime”....
