by Mansour Borji | 4 Nov 2025 | News
One of five Christian converts sentenced to a combined total of over 40 years in Tehran’s Evin Prison on charges related to their religious activities has begun serving his sentence of nine and a half years. Morteza Faghanpour-Saasi, 38, who is from the city of...
by Mansour Borji | 4 Nov 2025 | News
A Christian convert who has been detained in the women’s ward of Tehran’s Evin Prison since February has suffered a spinal fracture after falling from her bunk bed. Aida Najaflou, who is 44 years old, was taken to Taleghani Hospital for an X-ray after...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 31 Oct 2025 | News
The UN’s Special Rapporteur (SR) on human rights in Iran highlighted the recent arrest of Christians on accusations of “espionage” or “collaboration” with Israel during her address to the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee yesterday. Mai Sato was speaking as part...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Oct 2025 | News
A 61-year-old Christian convert is free after nearly two years in prison on charges related to her leadership of a house-church. Mina Khajavi, who suffers from arthritis and was denied medical care during her imprisonment, was released from Evin Prison on Monday after...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Oct 2025 | News
The chair of the independent US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has said its commissioners “abhor” the recent sentencing of five Iranian Christian converts “on propaganda charges for religious activities”. Hessamuddin Mohammad Junaidi,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Oct 2025 | Analysis
By Fred Petrossian At a time when systemic discrimination against Christians and other religious minorities in Iran continues unabated, the opening of a new metro station named after Mary and adorned with Christian symbols stands as a striking contradiction. It is...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 13 Oct 2025 | News
The growth of the Persian-speaking Church in spite of suffering was the focus of a BBC radio programme yesterday. BBC Radio 4’s ‘Sunday Worship’ programme was broadcast from a Persian-speaking Anglican church in the northwest of England, under the title: “Farsi...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 Oct 2025 | News
Three Christians who remain in Evin Prison over eight months after their arrest will face a second court hearing later this month on “propaganda” and “collusion” charges related to their religious activities. Joseph Shahbazian, Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh and Aida...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Oct 2025 | News
A Tehran appeal court has upheld the convictions of five Christian converts to a combined total of over 40 years in prison on “propaganda” charges related to their religious activities. Hessamuddin Mohammad Junaidi, Abolfazl Ahmadzadeh-Khajani, Morteza...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 30 Sep 2025 | News
One of the five Christian converts recently sentenced to a combined total of more than 40 years in prison was tortured during his six-month pre-trial detention, Article18 can reveal. Morteza Faghanpour-Saasi was one of at least seven converts arrested in the cities of...
