by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Jun 2021 | News
Left to right: Milad Goodarzi, Amin Khaki, and Alireza Nourmohammadi. Three Christian converts have been given the maximum sentence of five years each in prison under controversial recent amendments to Iran’s penal code. Amin Khaki, Milad Goodarzi and Alireza...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Jun 2021 | News
Iranian Christian convert Hamed Ashoori has been summoned to begin his 10-month prison sentence for “propaganda against the Islamic Republic”, after his appeal was rejected. The 31-year-old, who lives in Fardis, west of Tehran, received a message on Saturday, 26 June...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Jun 2021 | Analysis
As the dust settles on Ebrahim Raisi’s unsurprising election victory, amid record low voter turnout, Article18 assesses what the result means for Iran’s Christians. Embed from Getty Images In his first press conference yesterday as Iran’s new president-elect, current...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 15 Jun 2021 | News
Isfahan’s last two nuns, Fabiola Weiss and Giuseppina Berti, have been told they must leave their convent, while Sister Berti must leave Iran. An elderly Italian nun who has dedicated her life to helping Iran’s poor and needy has been told her visa will not be...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 9 Jun 2021 | Case Studies
(Last updated: May 2023) Case referenced by Article18, IranWire, Middle East Concern, Open Doors, International Christian Concern, Church in Chains, Voice of the Martyrs, Barnabas Fund Summary Iranian Christian converts Sara Ahmadi and her husband Homayoun Zhaveh, who...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 Jun 2021 | News
The group’s latest protest took place outside the Iranian embassy in Stockholm on 1 June. A group of Iranian Christian converts now living in Sweden say they want to be the voice of their fellow converts to the international community. One of the organisers of...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Jun 2021 | News
An Iranian Christian convert has begun serving his nine-month prison sentence for “propaganda against the Islamic Republic by promoting evangelical Christianity”. Reza Zaeemi, 40, handed himself in to the authorities at the Karaj Central Prison on Wednesday, 2 June,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Jun 2021 | News
Bigan Farokhpour Haghighi with his wife, Marzieh, and their 17-year-old son Sina. An Iranian Christian convert who was facing the threat of imminent deportation from Turkey has been granted protected status as a recognised refugee. Bigan Farokhpour Haghighi, who will...
by designer | 2 Jun 2021 | Sign a Petition
Article18 is calling on the Iranian government to immediately release a Christian convert with advanced Parkinson’s disease and his wife. Homayoun Zhaveh, who is 64 years old, is serving a two-year prison sentence because he belongs to a house-church. His wife, Sara...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 27 May 2021 | News
An Iranian Christian convert with advanced Parkinson’s disease and his wife have been told they must submit themselves to Tehran’s Evin Prison by 15 June. Homayoun Zhaveh, 62, and Sara Ahmadi, 43, face two and eight years in prison, respectively, for belonging to a...
