by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Jan 2025 | News
Two infamous judges counted among Iran’s so-called “Judges of Death” for handing out sentences of execution to opponents of the regime were murdered by an unidentified assailant in Tehran’s Supreme Court on Saturday. The assassinations of Mohammad Moghiseh, 68, and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Jan 2025 | Reports
Christians in Iran were sentenced to a combined total of over 250 years in prison in 2024, a sixfold increase compared to 2023, our newly released annual report reveals. Ninety-six Christians were sentenced to a combined 263 years in prison last year, compared with 22...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Jan 2025 | News
Christians in Iran were sentenced to a combined total of over 250 years in prison in 2024, a sixfold increase compared to 2023, our newly released annual report reveals. Ninety-six Christians were sentenced to a combined 263 years in prison last year, compared with 22...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 17 Jan 2025 | Analysis
By Fred Petrossian The UN Committee Against Torture has four times found Sweden guilty of violation its convention for its decisions to deport Christian converts, underscoring persistent concerns about the country’s immigration practices. Such decisions, widely...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 15 Jan 2025 | News
Iran remains among the world’s most “extreme” persecutors of Christians, according to the annual report of Article18’s partner organisation Open Doors. Iran’s “score” of 86/100 places it 9th on the 2025 World Watch List of the top 50 countries where Christians are...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Jan 2025 | Features
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding by a German Protestant pastor of Iran’s first school for the blind. Ernst Jakob Christoffel, who became known in Iran as the “German father of the blind”, made the Braille alphabet accessible to Persians and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 Jan 2025 | News
The head of Iran’s judiciary has boasted about the decision to provide Christian prisoners with five days leave over Christmas, neglecting to mention that in excess of 40 Christians were arrested for participating in Christmas celebrations in December, while at...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Jan 2025 | News
A Catholic convert arrested after protesting against her mistreatment by the Iranian authorities has been released after two months in Evin Prison, but faces a further four months behind bars and 74 lashes if any further “offence” is committed within the next five...
by Mansour Borji | 24 Dec 2024 | News
A house-church member from the northern city of Rasht has been released after completing a two-and-a-half-year sentence for his peaceful religious activities. Morteza Mashhoodkari, along with two other members of the “Church of Iran”, Ahmad (Youḥanna)...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Dec 2024 | News
An Iranian pastor who has been in and out of prison since his first arrest in 2006 was released from his latest long incarceration on account of his religious beliefs and practices on Saturday. Abdolreza Ali-Haghnejad, who is known as Matthias and will celebrate his...
