by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Jul 2022 | News
Left to right: Ahmad Sarparast, Morteza Mashoodkari, and Ayoob Poor-Rezazadeh. Three house-church members already facing five years in prison for “engaging in propaganda and education of deviant beliefs contrary to the holy Sharia” have today been informed they must...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Jul 2022 | News
A Christian convert has been fined and “deprived of social rights” for five years for “engaging in educational activities contrary to the holy religion of Islam by establishing house-churches”. Rahmat Rostamipour, 49, must pay 6 million tomans (around $185) now and a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Jul 2022 | News
The women’s ward of Lakan Prison in Rasht (Photo: Mojnews) An Iranian mother-of-three serving a two-year sentence for “spreading ‘Zionist’ Christianity” has been denied access to a scheme that would have allowed her to spend most of her time outside prison...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Jul 2022 | News
Mojtaba Hosseini (left), alongside three other survivors of apostasy and blasphemy laws around the world. Iranian Christian convert Mojtaba Hosseini was one of the speakers at a fringe event on the side of the International Ministerial on Freedom of Religion or Belief...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 Jul 2022 | News
An Iranian Christian prisoner of conscience recently adopted by the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief has been denied parole for a fifth time. Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh, who is 60 years old, has been in prison...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Jul 2022 | Reports
Christian converts are among the groups likely to face “heightened levels of repression” as a result of last year’s controversial amendments to the penal code, according to a new report. The report, ‘Iran: New Penal Code provisions as tools for further attacks on the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Jul 2022 | News
Christian converts are among the groups likely to face “heightened levels of repression” as a result of last year’s controversial amendments to the penal code, according to a new report. The report, ‘Iran: New Penal Code provisions as tools for further attacks on the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Jul 2022 | Features
“Sometimes I feel like I’ve waste my whole life.” These are the words of Iman Ghaznavian Haghighi, an Iranian Christian who has been living as a refugee in Turkey for nearly a decade now. After arriving in 2013 aged 27, Iman now finds himself in his late 30s, still...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 30 Jun 2022 | Analysis
By Mansour Borji Saheb Fadaie with his wife, Marjan, and their 15-year-old daughter, Martha. 17 June marked the 41st birthday of Saheb Fadaie, currently serving a 10-year prison sentence – reduced to six years – for “acting against national security by...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Jun 2022 | News
After two years in prison and nearly two more in internal exile over 1,000km from his home and family – not to mention being flogged for drinking Communion wine – Mohammad Reza (Youhan) Omidi is finally free, at least for now. The 49-year-old, who begun...
