by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Feb 2023 | Analysis
This extract of an interview conducted by the director of Human Rights Without Frontiers, Willy Fautré, was first published by the magazine Bitter Winter and is republished here with kind permission. Iranian-Assyrian Christian Dabrina Bet-Tamraz was forced to flee...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Feb 2023 | Features, News
Parsa’s story is different from a lot of other Iranian Christians who have experienced persecution. For most, the primary source of persecution is the state, but in Parsa’s case, although he was also pressured by the security forces, the main point of pressure...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Feb 2023 | News, Witness Statements
For a summary of Parsa’s story, you can read our feature article here. Background 1. My name is Ali Mostafaei, known as Parsa. I was born in June 1991 in Shahriar, Tehran, to a large and relatively well-off family. I have three sisters and three brothers, and I’m the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Feb 2023 | News
A second convert serving a long prison sentence for being part of a house-church has been released as part of a wider amnesty of prisoners on the occasion of the 44th anniversary of the Islamic Republic. Hadi Rahimi, known as Moslem, was released last Wednesday, after...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Feb 2023 | News
Article18 today releases its fifth joint annual report on “Rights Violations against Christians in Iran”, with partner organisations CSW, Middle East Concern, and Open Doors International. The 25-page report is released on 19 February to coincide...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Feb 2023 | Reports
Article18 today releases its fifth joint annual report on “Rights Violations against Christians in Iran”, with partner organisations CSW, Middle East Concern, and Open Doors International. The 25-page report is released on 19 February to coincide...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Feb 2023 | Notes from Prison
This is the third 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 prison explained his...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Feb 2023 | Notes from Prison
This is the second 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 prison...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 9 Feb 2023 | News
Saheb Fadaie, with his wife Marjan and daughter Marta. An Iranian convert jailed for “acting against national security by organising house-churches and promoting ‘Zionist’ Christianity” has been “pardoned” after nearly five years in Tehran’s Evin Prison. Zaman Fadaie,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Feb 2023 | Analysis
This interview was conducted by Dutch newspaper Reformatorisch Dagblad and translated by Christian Network Europe. It is re-published here with kind permission. “I faced oppression from a very early age”, says Dabrina Bet-Tamraz. The 37-year-old grew...
