by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Apr 2021 | Reports
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has called on the US government to “prioritise” the resettlement of refugees who have experienced the “most egregious forms of religious persecution”, singling out “Iranian religious minorities” as an example. In...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Apr 2021 | News
Left to right: Alireza Varak-Shah, Hojjat Lotfi Khalaf, Mohammad Ali (Davoud) Torabi, and Esmaeil Narimanpour. (MEC) Four Christian converts have been arrested and others summoned for interrogation by intelligence agents in the southwestern city of Dezful. Hojjat...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Apr 2021 | News
Article18’s Mansour Borji, Fred Petrossian and Kiaa Aalipour were among the panelists for the live Clubhouse discussion on Saturday. Religious-freedom advocates from different minority groups were united on the need for increased collaboration during a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Apr 2021 | Features
This interview was first broadcast by the Christian Emergency Alliance as a podcast, a truncated version of which is republished here with kind permission. Tat Stewart grew up in Iran as the son of Presbyterian medical missionaries, but when he left to train for...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 15 Apr 2021 | News
(Photo: Mohabat News) Christian convert Majidreza Souzanchi has been released after more than three years in prison. The 37-year-old was released on furlough from the Greater Tehran Penitentiary last Thursday, 8 April, and has told Mohabat News he does not need to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 9 Apr 2021 | News
Neale Richmond (Photo: Twitter @nealerichmond) A member of the Irish parliament has formally raised concerns over the recent summons to prison of a Christian couple in Tehran for belonging to a house-church. Neale Richmond did not mention the Christians by name in his...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Apr 2021 | Analysis
Mvoices spoke recently with Article18’s Mansour Borji about the “white torture” experienced by Iranian Christian detainees, and the ways in which Article18 supports victims. This article was first published by Mvoices, under the headline “White...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Mar 2021 | News
A Christian convert with advanced Parkinson’s disease and his wife have been summoned to begin their prison sentences for belonging to a house-church. Homayoun Zhaveh, who is 62 years old, and his wife Sara Ahmadi, 42, received the summons on Friday, telling them to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Mar 2021 | Features
Iranian Christian prisoner of conscience Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh has written a poem on the occasion of the Persian New Year, or Nowruz. Nasser, who is 59 years old, is serving a 10-year prison sentence in Tehran’s Evin Prison because of his membership of a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Mar 2021 | Features
Even today, suspicion follows Mostafa. It’s been years since his acquittal from a long prison sentence, and some still question how he was able to escape. Was it by divulging information about the activities of the house-church network of which he was a...
