by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Jan 2022 | News
Just two weeks after the release on bail of nine Christian converts, pending a review of their case ordered by Iran’s Supreme Court, one of them is already back in prison – thanks to a ruling by a different branch of that same Supreme Court. Abdolreza...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 14 Jan 2022 | News
St Luke’s Anglican Church in Isfahan, one of just four Persian-speaking churches still permitted to operate inside Iran, but not allowed to take on new members. Iranian-speaking churches in the diaspora have added their voice to the call for Persian-speaking...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Jan 2022 | News
Yasser’s son, Amir Ali, during his younger years. An Iranian Christian prisoner of conscience is mourning the death of his only child. Mehdi (Yasser) Akbari, who was a single parent, was informed on 28 December that his 18-year-old son, Amir Ali, who had...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Jan 2022 | News
Hadi (Moslem) Rahimi has begun serving his four-year prison sentence for “acting against national security” by attending a house-church and “spreading ‘Zionist’ Christianity”. The 32-year-old delivery driver, who has a nine-month-old daughter, handed himself in to...
by designer | 8 Jan 2022 | Prisoners
Abdolreza (Matthias) Ali Haghnejad, a house church leader in the city of Anzali, is serving a six-year prison sentence for “acting against national security by promoting Christianity outside of churches.” This convert from Anzali was transferred from the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 Jan 2022 | News
The lawyer of a Christian convert who has spent nearly four years in prison for “acting against national security” by being part of a house-church has asked what danger the release of his 60-year-old client could pose. Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh is one of the longest...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Jan 2022 | News
A 64-year-old Christian woman who has already served one prison sentence for “propaganda against the regime” has been summoned to answer the same charge again. Rokhsareh (Mahrokh) Ghanbari, who served four months of her one-year sentence before her release in March...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Jan 2022 | News
Left to right: Milad Goodarzi, Amin Khaki, and Alireza Nourmohammadi. Three Christian converts serving three-year sentences for “engaging in propaganda that educates in a deviant way contrary to the holy religion of Islam” have been given 10 days’ leave from prison...
by Mansour Borji | 1 Jan 2022 | News
Clockwise from top-left: Shahrooz Eslamdoust, Mehdi Khatibi, Babak Hosseinzadeh, Hossein Kadivar, Mohammad Vafadar, Abdolreza (Matthias) Ali-Haghnejad, Behnam Akhlaghi, Khalil Dehghanpour, Kamal Naamanian Nine converts serving five-year prison sentences for...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Dec 2021 | News
Left to right: Mohammad Ali (Davoud) Torabi, Mohammad Kayidgap, Esmaeil Narimanpour, and Alireza Varak-Shah, four of eight Christian converts cleared of any criminal offence. Eight Christian converts have been cleared of any crime, with the presiding prosecutor...
