by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Nov 2021 | Reports
A new report by a Christian charity in Germany is highly critical of its immigration service for failing to recognise the testimony of pastors when considering the claims of asylum-seekers professing to be Christian converts, the majority of whom are Iranian....
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Nov 2021 | News
Article18 has joined 30 other organisations in calling on UN member states to support an upcoming resolution highlighting “widespread patterns of serious human rights violations” in Iran. The resolution, which will be voted on next week, is “an important opportunity...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 9 Nov 2021 | News
Habib Heydari (left) and Sasan Khosravi. Christian converts Sasan Khosravi and Habib Heydari have been summoned back to prison to serve the remainder of their one-year sentences for “propagating against the Islamic Republic by promoting Christianity”. The two...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 9 Nov 2021 | News
The Central Assemblies of God Church in Tehran, which was forcibly closed in May 2013. Article18 has partnered with nine other Christian organisations in today sending a joint letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, asking her to seek answers from the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Nov 2021 | News
Left to right: Milad Goodarzi, Amin Khaki, and Alireza Nourmohammadi. Three Christian converts have been summoned to begin three-year prison sentences for “engaging in propaganda that educates in a deviant way contrary to the holy religion of Islam”. Amin Khaki, Milad...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Nov 2021 | News
Left to right: Mohammad Ali (Davoud) Torabi, Mohammad Kayidgap, Esmaeil Narimanpour, and Alireza Varak-Shah. Four Christian converts whose property was confiscated from them by the intelligence agents who raided their homes more than six months ago have finally had it...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Oct 2021 | News
Javaid Rehman (left) and António Gutteres (Photo: UN Geneva / Flickr / CC) Article18 has partnered with seven other organisations to ask senior UN figures not to forget Iran’s persecuted Christians in future reports about the human rights situation in the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 27 Oct 2021 | News
Left to right: Babak Hosseinzadeh, Behnam Akhlaghi and Saheb Fadaie. Three Iranian converts serving long prison sentences for their membership of a house-church have written a joint letter and recorded video statements, asking where they should worship once they are...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Oct 2021 | News
An Iranian convert who has spent more than three years in Tehran’s Evin Prison for leading a house-church was told yesterday he has been denied parole for a second time – despite never applying for it. Zaman (Saheb) Fadaie, who is 40 years old, has been in...
