by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Apr 2022 | News
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has once again recommended that the State Department re-designates Iran as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) for “systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom”. In its latest...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Apr 2022 | Reports
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has once again recommended that the State Department re-designates Iran as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) for “systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom”. In its latest...
by Mansour Borji | 21 Apr 2022 | News
A Christian convert in Iran was arrested after a dozen plainclothes agents from the Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) raided his house, confiscating several Bibles. Rahmat Rostamipour, 49, was driven away in a convoy of four cars at 8am on Monday, 18 April, from his...
by designer | 21 Apr 2022 | Prisoners
Morteza Hajeb Mashoodkari and two other members of a house church in Rasht were arrested on 5 September 2021, during a raid by security forces. These three converts, all members of the “Church of Iran,” were then taken to an unknown location. The other two...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Apr 2022 | News
A 51-year-old woman Christian convert today began serving a two-year prison sentence in Tehran’s Evin prison for “acting against national security by establishing and leading an Evangelical Christian church”. Fariba Dalir, whose case has not been reported until...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Apr 2022 | News
Left to right: Ahmad Sarparast, Morteza Mashoodkari, and Ayoob Poor-Rezazadeh. Three converts have been sentenced to five years in prison for “engaging in propaganda and education of deviant beliefs contrary to the holy Sharia” and “connections with foreign leaders”....
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Mar 2022 | News
Photo: UN/Manuel Elias Article18 has joined with 36 other Iranian and international human rights organisations in calling on all members of the UN Human Rights Council to support the renewal of the mandate of the special rapporteur on human rights in Iran. In a joint...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Mar 2022 | News
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe highlighted the plight of remaining prisoners of conscience, including members of religious groups, during her first public comments since her release last week from six years in prison. “I believe that the meaning of ‘freedom’ is never...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Mar 2022 | News
The UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran once again highlighted the persecution of religious minorities, including Christian converts, in his latest remarks to the Human Rights Council in Geneva. “Religious minorities, in particular the Baha’is and Christian...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 17 Mar 2022 | News
Embed from Getty Images Article18 has today joined with over 50 other human rights groups in signing a joint statement calling on the Iranian parliament to immediately withdraw a draconian Internet bill that would violate a plethora of human rights including freedom...
