by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Mar 2022 | Analysis
A version of this article, written by Article18’s News Director Steve Dew-Jones, was first published on premierchristianity.com. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is finally on her way back to the UK. (Photo: Twitter @TulipSiddiq) After nearly six years’ unjust...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 15 Mar 2022 | Analysis
This article was written by the former pastor of an official church in Iran, who spent weeks in Tehran’s Evin Prison following his arrest by agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence for his church activities, and endured severe pressure from his interrogators...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Mar 2022 | News
Kazem Gharibabadi, secretary of Iran’s “High Council for Human Rights”. Iran has dismissed the latest report by the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in Iran as “biased”, “politically motivated” and based only on “a series of unsubstantiated...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Mar 2022 | Features
Ehsan Khoshgoo was a university student when he was arrested at a Tehran house-church gathering in November 2015. When he was released on bail six weeks later, he was told he could no longer study at the university and that if he went back there, he would be arrested...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Mar 2022 | Witness Statements
For a summary of Ehsan’s story, you can read our feature article here. Background 1. My name is Ehsan Khoshgoo. I was born in 1991 in Kermanshah [western Iran] and grew up in Tehran and Karaj. I studied physical education at Rajai University [in Karaj] and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 2 Mar 2022 | News
The bishop’s house is now a museum, flanked on one side by flags of the Islamic Republic, and with pictures of Iran’s two Supreme Leaders, Ayatollahs Khomeini and Khamenei, outside the front door. (Photo: Twitter @Alireza_E_1999) The official residence and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Mar 2022 | News
Only one day after nine Christian converts were acquitted of “acting against national security” by worshipping in house-churches, another Christian convert serving a 10-year sentence on very similar grounds has been denied his own retrial. Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh, who...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Feb 2022 | News
Clockwise from top-left: Mohammad Vafadar, Kamal Naamanian, Hossein Kadivar, Behnam Akhlaghi, Abdolreza (Matthias) Ali-Haghnejad, Shahrooz Eslamdoust, Khalil Dehghanpour, Babak Hosseinzadeh, and Mehdi Khatibi. Nine converts who spent a combined nearly 20 years in...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Feb 2022 | News
Fr Dominique Mathieu (www.ofmconv.net) and Sister Giuseppina Berti (EsfahanEmrooz/Reza Amini/Getty) The Iranian embassy to the Holy See has reacted angrily to an article on a Catholic website highlighting the challenges faced by Christians in Iran. In the article,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Feb 2022 | News
Left to right: Moslem Rahimi, Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh, Yousef Nadarkhani, and Saheb Fadaie. Four Christian prisoners of conscience in Tehran’s Evin Prison have fallen ill in recent days following a suspected Covid-19 outbreak within their ward. Nasser Navard...
