by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Mar 2021 | Analysis
This article was written by Mindy Belz, senior editor at WORLD Magazine. It was first published on the WORLD website on 11 March, under the headline “Waiting in a risky place”, and is reproduced here with kind permission. Asylum-seekers wait behind razor...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Mar 2021 | News
An Iranian Christian convert with advanced Parkinson’s disease and his wife have been told to expect a summons any day to begin their prison sentences for belonging to a house-church. Homayoun Zhaveh, who is 62, and his wife Sara Ahmadi, 42, were sentenced in November...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Mar 2021 | News
Article18 has joined 38 other rights groups in calling for the renewal of the mandate of the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, Javaid Rehman. The renewal of Mr Rehman’s mandate is set to be voted upon at the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Mar 2021 | News
The UK’s permanent representative to the UN has called on Iran to end its “persistent” discrimination and persecution of religious minorities, “particularly the Baha’i and Christian converts”. Julian Braithwaite was speaking as part of a 9 March interactive dialogue...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Mar 2021 | Features
Clockwise from top-left: Aylar Bakhtari, Maryam Falahi, Mahrokh Ghanbari, Mary Mohammadi, Shamiram Issavi, Marjan Falahi, Malihe Nazari, Sonya Sadegh, Masoumeh Ghasemi, Fatemeh Talebi On International Women’s Day, we honour the Christian women who have been arrested,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Mar 2021 | News
Agnes Callamard, UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (Photo: UN/Mark Garten) The UN’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions has condemned Iran for “multiple human rights violations” in the downing last...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 2 Mar 2021 | Features
Maryam Rooznahani Peyhani fled her home in Iran two years ago today, on the anniversary of the raid on her Tehran house-church. The 35-year-old convert to Christianity had been interrogated during the March 2018 raid, and had been told to expect a call from the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Feb 2021 | News
Iranian Christian convert Ebrahim Firouzi has been released on bail after nearly three weeks in detention. The 34-year-old, who has already spent years in prison and is now living in exile, was detained on 8 February on new charges of “insulting the sacred”...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Feb 2021 | News
Fr Dominique Mathieu (centre) at his consecration service in Rome on 16 February, the feast day St Maruthas, patron saint of Iran. (Photo: www.ofmconv.net) Iran’s small Catholic community finally has a new archbishop. Fr Dominique Mathieu, 57, was consecrated last...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Feb 2021 | News
Left to right: Saheb Fadaie, Yousef Nadarkhani, Yasser Mossayebzadeh, and Youhan Omidi. Mohammad Ali (Yasser) Mossayebzadeh, who was serving a 10-year sentence as a result of his membership of a house-church, has been granted conditional release from prison. It is...
