by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Aug 2022 | Analysis
Embed from Getty Images An Iranian Christian convert who has been seeking asylum in Germany for four years has until today to accept his deportation or hand over his work license, after his final appeal – to the European Court of Human Rights – was...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 17 Aug 2022 | Analysis
A young man named Siamak admitted the 2012 murder of an American woman named Teresa Virginia, for which he was sentenced to be hanged as a “retribution in kind”. (Photo: Aftab News) The resurfacing of a decade-old murder case involving an American...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 17 Aug 2022 | News
Left to right: Malihe Nazari, Mina Khajavi, Joseph Shahbazian, Somayeh (Sonya) Sadegh, and Masoumeh Ghasemi. An Iranian court of appeal has upheld the sentences of five Christians facing a total of 22 years in prison and the equivalent of $2,225 in fines for their...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 15 Aug 2022 | News
An Iranian Christian convert with advanced Parkinson’s disease and his wife have been detained in Tehran. Homayoun Zhaveh, who is about to celebrate his 64th birthday, and Sara Ahmadi, 44, answered a summons to an administrative office of Evin Prison on Saturday,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Aug 2022 | News
A Christian convert from Karaj, near Tehran, has been arrested and remains in detention on unknown charges. Mohammad Golbaz, who is 34 years old, was arrested at his motorcycle repair shop on Saturday, 30 July, by more than a dozen plainclothes intelligence...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Aug 2022 | News
Left to right: Maryam (Khadijeh) Mohammadi, Anooshavan Avedian, and Abbas Souri. Three Iranian Christians have been informed that the Supreme Court has refused to review their sentences of prison and exile for “propaganda contrary to and disturbing to the holy...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 2 Aug 2022 | News
Mohammad Ali Dadkhah is now in Tehran’s Evin Prison. A lawyer who helped to save a pastor from death row a decade ago is now imprisoned alongside him. Mohammad Ali Dadkhah defended Yousef Nadarkhani against a 2010 death sentence for “apostasy”, of...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Aug 2022 | Reports
Iran’s “misinformation campaign” against religious minorities, including Christian converts, is the focus of a new report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. The report, written by Shahin Milani of the US-based Iran Human Rights Documentation...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Aug 2022 | News
Iran’s “misinformation campaign” against religious minorities, including Christian converts, is the focus of a new report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. The report, written by Shahin Milani of the US-based Iran Human Rights Documentation...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Jul 2022 | News
A grandfather in his late fifties who has cancer is one of four Christian converts still detained more than three weeks after their arrest at a house-church gathering in a conservative Shia Muslim region of northeast Iran. Gholamreza Keyvanmanesh is being held in...
