by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 May 2023 | News
British-Iranian bishop Guli Francis-Dehqani has called on the UK government to consider offering a “safe-route scheme” for Iranians fleeing persecution on account of their faith. In an oral question at the UK House of Lords this afternoon, Bishop Guli cited...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 May 2023 | News
This Sunday will be the 10th anniversary of the forced closure of the largest Persian-speaking church in Iran, the Central Assemblies of God Church in Tehran. The once-thriving church, built in the 1970s and re-registered in 1980 after the establishment of the Islamic...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 May 2023 | News
A 64-year-old Christian convert with advanced Parkinson’s disease and his wife have been acquitted and released from their combined 10-year prison sentence. Homayoun Zhaveh, whose health has deteriorated while in prison, and his wife Sara Ahmadi had been detained in...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 May 2023 | News
Researchers found that many victims’ devices were first infected near police stations or border posts. (Photo: Lookout) Intelligence officers belonging to the Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran, or FARAJA, are using spyware to monitor...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 2 May 2023 | News
The “sharply deteriorated religious-freedom conditions” in Iran are the focus of the cover and introduction to the latest annual report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. The cover of the report, which was published yesterday, features a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 2 May 2023 | Reports
The “sharply deteriorated religious-freedom conditions” in Iran are the focus of the cover and introduction to the latest annual report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. The cover of the report, which was published yesterday, features a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Apr 2023 | News
A 50-year-old Christian convert whose son has been battling leukaemia for five years was released from prison on Monday, two days before his 25th birthday. Malihe Nazari, who was serving a six-year prison sentence in Tehran’s Evin Prison for “acting against national...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Apr 2023 | Notes from Prison
This is the twelfth and last of a series of articles by Mojtaba Hosseini, an Iranian convert to Christianity who spent more than three years in prison in the southern city of Shiraz because of his membership of a house-church. Mojtaba’s first note from prison...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 15 Apr 2023 | Notes from Prison
This is the penultimate article in a series by Mojtaba Hosseini, an Iranian convert to Christianity who spent more than three years in prison in the southern city of Shiraz because of his membership of a house-church. Mojtaba’s first note from prison explained his...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Apr 2023 | News
Christian prisoner of conscience Sara Ahmadi has joined 19 other women political prisoners in Tehran’s Evin Prison in co-signing an open letter calling on the Islamic Republic to take action in response to climate change. Sara, who is serving an eight-year prison...
