by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Mar 2023 | Notes from Prison
This is the sixth in 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...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Mar 2023 | News
Photo: Shafeghna A prominent Shia cleric has bemoaned how the younger generation of Iranians are leaving Shia Islam for other faiths, including Christianity, and said he views it as his responsibility to “bring them back”. Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Javad Alavi...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Mar 2023 | Features
Shadi Noveiri was strip-searched multiple times during her 40 days in detention, an experience she describes as “absolutely humiliating and I believe illegal”. The Christian convert, who turned 25 during her incarceration, was subjected to the search each time she was...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Mar 2023 | Witness Statements
For a summary of Shadi’s story, you can read our feature article here. Introduction 1. My name is Shadi Noveiri Gilani. After becoming a Christian, I was known by two names: Sheilan and Raha. I was born in Bandar Anzali [in Gilan Province, north Iran] in 1990...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Mar 2023 | News
A fifth convert has been released as part of the mass pardoning of political prisoners, while there are reports two more may also have been freed, perhaps taking the total to as many as seven within the past month. Milad Goodarzi, who was nearly halfway through a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Mar 2023 | Notes from Prison
This is the fifth in 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...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Mar 2023 | News
Yousef Nadarkhani, Bible in hand, stands in front of the only church in Rasht that offered services in the national language of Persian, before its forcible closure. Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, who was released on Sunday after nearly five years’ arbitrary detention in...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Mar 2023 | News
An Iranian pastor once sentenced to death for his “apostasy” has been “pardoned” and released after nearly five years in Tehran’s Evin Prison, but told he still faces flogging and two years’ exile 2,000km from his home. Yousef Nadarkhani, whose death sentence was...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Feb 2023 | News
A third Christian convert was among the prisoners pardoned and released earlier this month, Article18 can now confirm. Mehdi Rokhparvar, who was serving a five-year sentence for “acting against national security” by “forming an illegal evangelical Christian group”,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Feb 2023 | Notes from Prison
This is the fourth in 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...
