by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Aug 2024 | News
A new report from the United Nations’ Fact-Finding Mission says ethnic and religious minorities were singled out in the Iran regime’s crackdown on the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement. The advocacy paper, ‘”They have dehumanised us”: Minority rights...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Jul 2024 | News
A Christian convert serving a two-year prison sentence for “acting against national security by connecting with ‘Zionist’ Christian organisations” has reportedly been threatened with another conviction as a result of the publicity her case has received. According to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Jul 2024 | Analysis
By Fred Petrossian Iran’s former foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has emphasised “positive discrimination” for women and minorities in his new role as head of the transitional council responsible for evaluating governmental candidates, but it is the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Jul 2024 | News
Article18 has submitted a joint report to the UN Human Rights Council ahead of Iran’s upcoming Universal Periodic Review, highlighting the ongoing rights violations experienced by Christians. In the submission, written in collaboration with partner organisations Open...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Jul 2024 | Analysis
By Fred Petrossian Iran’s hand-picked presidential candidates have used some nice phrases in recent weeks about the rights and “dignity” of the people of Iran in general, and women and minorities in particular, but they have lacked any substance. The Supreme Leader,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Jun 2024 | News
“Many people throughout the world have reacted with shock to the murders of three Protestant clergymen in recent months.” So wrote the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran following the killings of Bishop Haik...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Jun 2024 | Features
Rev Mehdi Dibaj’s final defence, before he was sentenced to death for “apostasy”, was published in full by The Times newspaper in January 1994. The pastor was released that same month after an international outcry but murdered just five months later,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Jun 2024 | News
Eight Iranian Christian converts have been sentenced to a combined total of nearly 45 years in prison. The eight, who are from the western city of Izeh, were among the at least 46 Iranian Christians arrested over the Christmas period, though until this moment it has...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Jun 2024 | News
A Christian convert arrested last month remains in detention in an unknown location, as his wife and two daughters grow increasingly concerned. Farrokh Kakaei, who will celebrate his 55th birthday later this month, was arrested at his home in Karaj on 26 May by four...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Jun 2024 | News
An Armenian Christian has been condemned to 10 years in prison in Iran despite his lawyer arguing that the case against him was so weak that the judge was forced to use a penal code provision enabling him to use his “intuition”. Hakop Gochumyan, who has been detained...
