by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Nov 2022 | News
Left to right: Ahmad Sarparast, Morteza Mashoodkari, and Ayoob Poor-Rezazadeh. Three “Church of Iran” members serving five-year prison sentences for “spreading deviant beliefs contrary to Islam” have been cleared of wrongdoing in a second trial on identical...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Nov 2022 | News
Article18 director Mansour Borji has welcomed yesterday’s historic decision by UN Human Rights Council members to send a fact-finding mission to investigate claims of human rights violations related to the ongoing protests. 🔴 BREAKING At its 35th special...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Nov 2022 | News
The photograph used by state media in the interview with Mr Betkolia, showing the former MP standing alongside the flags of the Assyrian people (left) and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The former parliamentary representative of Iran’s Assyrian minority has launched a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Nov 2022 | News
The UN General Assembly has passed a draft resolution highlighting the “deteriorating” human-rights situation in Iran, including “lethal force resulting in death against peaceful protesters”, as well as “ongoing severe limitations and increasing restrictions on the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Nov 2022 | News
(Photo: AP) The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has condemned the sentencing to death of an Iranian protester on “religiously-grounded charges” and warned of the “credible” threat of “large-scale executions in the coming weeks”. On Sunday, a Tehran...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Nov 2022 | News
Assyrian parliamentary representative Sharli Envieh. Iran’s Assyrian Christian minority have been warned by their parliamentary representative and church leaders to have no further involvement in the ongoing protests. Article18 was informed yesterday by sources...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Nov 2022 | News
Left to right: Babak Paknia, Bahar Sahraian, and Mustafa Nili. More than 30 lawyers, including at least three involved in defending Christian converts, have been arrested in recent weeks in cities across Iran. The arrests come as thousands of protesters await trial,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 Nov 2022 | Analysis
Accusations that members of religious minorities, including Christians, are engaged in unspecified “actions against national security” are deliberately vague in order “to mislead the public”, says the author of a recent report on religious propaganda in Iran. The...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Nov 2022 | Analysis
Field House in London, UK, where many asylum cases are decided. (Photo: righttoremain.org.uk) The question of how much weight should be given to the testimony of church members and leaders in assessing the credibility of asylum-seekers’ claims to have converted to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 31 Oct 2022 | News
An Iranian Anglican minister and his family, who had been threatened with deportation from Turkey, have now been safely resettled in the United States. Pastor Hekmat Salimi, his wife Mahindokht and their daughter Sama arrived in Atlanta late on Saturday night, after...
