by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Jan 2024 | News
Iranian Christians in Turkey are no longer eligible for resettlement to the US as part of the refugee sponsorship programme launched last year, despite Iran being re-designated last week as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) by the US Secretary of State for “having...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Jan 2024 | News
A 60-year-old Iranian Christian convert has been summoned to begin her six-year prison sentence for “acting against national security by promoting ‘Zionist’ Christianity” through leadership of a house-church. Mina Khajavi, who was arrested back in 2020, was sentenced...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Jan 2024 | News
An Armenian Christian who remains in Evin Prison nearly five months after his arrest faces a first court hearing this Sunday on charges of “propaganda against the state through the promotion of Christianity”. Hakop Gochumyan, who is 35 years old, will be tried at the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Jan 2024 | News
A Christian convert previously forced to attend “re-education” sessions with an Islamic cleric remains detained following his arrest during a Christmas Eve raid on his home in Dezful, western Iran. Esmaeil Narimanpour’s home was searched and his Christian books...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Jan 2024 | News
Four Christian converts, including an Afghan refugee, remain in detention over three weeks after their arrest in Shahriar, west of Tehran. The arrests followed an 11 December raid by 30 intelligence agents on a house-church gathering, where around 25 men, women and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Dec 2023 | Features
Four Iranian Christians who were arrested at Christmas time or spent the festive season in prison have shared with Article18 how Iranian Christians celebrate Jesus’ birth with a mixture of joy and trepidation. “We used to celebrate most of the New Year and Christmas...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Dec 2023 | News
An Armenian citizen, who was one of over 100 Christians arrested in Iran this summer, remains detained in Evin Prison more than four months later. Hakop Gochumyan, 35, was visiting Iran with his wife Elisa, who is an Iranian-Armenian, and their two children, when they...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 15 Dec 2023 | Analysis
This article, written by Article18’s Fred Petrossian, analyses the ways in which education, art, urbanism and religious discourse have been weaponised by the Iranian state. It was first published on the website Global Voices, and is republished here with kind...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Dec 2023 | News
A former prisoner of conscience and his brother remain in detention in an unknown location after four house-church members were arrested yesterday during coordinated raids by intelligence agents on their homes and shops near Tehran. The name of the detainees cannot be...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Dec 2023 | Analysis
On the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, here are 10 rights that have been denied to Christians in Iran since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979. Article 3 – Right to Life At least 10 Iranian Christians have been...
