by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Oct 2020 | News
By Fred Petrossian ‘White Torture’ was written by Narges Mohammadi. Christian convert Mary Mohammadi is among 12 female current and former prisoners of conscience interviewed as part of a new book on “white torture” inside Iran’s prisons. The book, written...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Oct 2020 | Features
By Mary Mohammadi Iranian Christian convert Mary Mohammadi was expelled from university last December, without explanation, on the eve of her English-language exams. Nearly a year on, Mary poetically describes the immense impact of this deprivation of education...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Oct 2020 | News
Forty-seven UN member states signed a joint statement read out at the Human Rights Council in Geneva last week, condemning Iran’s human rights abuses. The statement, read out by the German representative on 25 September, expressed “deep concern” about violations of...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Sep 2020 | News
Iranian Christian convert Ebrahim Firouzi has already spent six years in prison followed by nearly a year in internal exile 1,000 miles from his home. Now, just two days ago, on Sunday 27 September, the 33-year-old was summoned to the local prosecutor’s office...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Sep 2020 | Features
At 6am on 28 September 1996, Christian convert Mohammad Bagher Yusefi (known as “Ravanbakhsh”, or “soul giver”) left his home in Sari, northern Iran, at his wife Akhtar’s request, to buy some bread. He’d agreed to return home soon afterwards to take the children...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Sep 2020 | Features
Iranian-Assyrian pastor Victor Bet-Tamraz has spoken exclusively to Article18 about how his years of service to the Church in Iran ultimately led to a 10-year prison sentence that forced him out of the country. In the 30-minute video interview, Pastor Victor says...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Sep 2020 | News
Lydia was just three months old when she was adopted by Iranian Christian converts Sam Khosravi and wife Maryam Falahi. Now, just one month before her second birthday, a court has ruled she must be taken away from them, as Sam and Maryam – who are currently...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Sep 2020 | News
Qarchak women’s prison, south of Tehran. An Iranian woman convert to Christianity detained since her arrest at the end of June has finally been released on a reduced bail. Article18 understands that Malihe Nazari, who is 47 years old, was released from Qarchak...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Sep 2020 | News
Two new reports claim to reveal an “ongoing” and “large-scale” hacking operation sponsored by the Iranian regime primarily targeting minorities and opposition groups. The first report, published by researchers at US-Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point, details the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Sep 2020 | News
The bishop’s house in Isfahan – once the seat of the Anglican Church in Iran – was confiscated by an Islamic Revolutionary Court judge on 6 November 1979, nine months after the revolution that brought Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to power at the head of a...
