by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Oct 2021 | News
Left to right: Mohammad Ali (Davoud) Torabi, Mohammad Kayidgap, Esmaeil Narimanpour, and Alireza Varak-Shah. Four Iranian Christian converts are growing increasingly frustrated by intelligence agents’ continued refusal to return personal belongings confiscated from...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Oct 2021 | News
Left to right: Somayeh (Sonya) Sadegh, Mina Khajavi, and Joseph Shahbazian. Five Iranian Christians who were among dozens arrested during coordinated raids on house-churches in three cities last year were summoned on Saturday to give their final defence before a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Oct 2021 | Witness Statements
For a summary of Leila and Peyman’s story, you can read our feature article here. Conversion Leila 1. My name is Leila Fooladi Helabad and I was born in 1976 in Isfahan. In around 2001, I was studying maths in Tehran while my family lived in Isfahan, and I felt...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Oct 2021 | News
Christian prisoner of conscience Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh has for the second time this year been refused conditional release, or even a furlough. The Christian convert, who turned 60 in August, is eligible for parole, having served over one third of his 10-year...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Oct 2021 | News
An Iranian Christian convert now living in Sweden who has helped organise numerous protests over the past year has warned Western governments that “to appease Iran is to give them your seal of approval”. More than 45 Iranian Christians joined the latest protest...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Oct 2021 | News
A convert detained incommunicado for almost a month following his arrest by agents of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps has finally been released from custody, albeit only on bail. Ayoob Poor-Rezazadeh, 28, was one of three converts arrested on the evening of Sunday 5...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Oct 2021 | Features
Emma’s interrogator said her arrest was part of a major national operation, in which Christians in as many as 23 other Iranian provinces had been detained. It was the day after Christmas in 2010, just two months since the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Oct 2021 | Witness Statements
For a summary of Emma’s story, you can read our feature article here. Background 1. My name is Azam Safaei, though now I prefer to be called Emma. I was born in 1977, and am originally from Khorasan [northeast Iran]. 2. I started playing music in my first year...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Oct 2021 | News
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. The...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Sep 2021 | News
There are concerns over the wellbeing of a convert, whose whereabouts remain unknown more than three weeks after his arrest during a raid on a house-church service in Rasht, northern Iran. Ayoob Poor-Rezazadeh, 28, was one of three converts arrested on the evening of...
