by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Mar 2025 | News
Three Christian converts including a woman pregnant with her first child have been sentenced to over 40 years in prison on charges related to their religious beliefs and worship meetings. Abbas Souri, Mehran Shamloui and Narges Nasri, who is approximately halfway...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Mar 2025 | Analysis
This article, written by Article18’s news director, Steve Dew-Jones, was first published by Premier Christianity magazine and is republished in part here with kind permission. You can read the full article on Premier’s website. If you’re looking for a light-hearted...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Mar 2025 | News
Iranian-Armenian pastor Joseph Shahbazian remains in detention in Tehran’s Evin Prison nearly a month after his re-arrest and continues to be denied access to a lawyer or to be informed of any official charges against him, Article18 understands. “When the initial...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Mar 2025 | News
Iranian Christian convert Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh remains on hunger strike in Tehran’s Evin Prison, nearly one month after his re-arrest. The 63-year-old was rearrested on 6 February, the same day as fellow former prisoner of conscience Joseph Shahbazian, an...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Mar 2025 | Features
This article, written by Iranian-American journalist Tara Jamali, was first published by Premier Christianity magazine, under the headline, ‘The Iranians stormed this church and forced its closure. But I’ll never forget the Christians I met there’, and is republished...
by Mansour Borji | 18 Feb 2025 | News
Plainclothes officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) raided a gathering of around 80 Christians in a garden in northern Iran earlier this month, confiscating Bibles and musical instruments, and arresting one of the attendees. Christian convert Somayeh...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Feb 2025 | News
Two Christians in their 60s 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, Article18 understands. According to Article18’s sources, Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 31 Jan 2025 | News
The European Parliament has included specific mention of the pressures Christian converts face in its latest resolution on Iran. The resolution, adopted last week, “condemns the Iranian regime’s … persecution of minorities”, including “Christians facing persecution...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 30 Jan 2025 | Analysis
Two side events the day before Iran’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations in Geneva last week highlighted once again the chasm between what the Islamic Republic says about its treatment of religious minorities and the reality of their lived...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 30 Jan 2025 | News
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Article18’s joint side event at the UN in Geneva on 23 January, the day before Iran’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and just one hour before the Islamic Republic’s own side event. You can read further analysis...
