by designer | 26 Sep 2025 | Refugees
Kavian was sentenced to 10 years in prison following his arrest at a Christmas gathering in 2014. The Christian convert was held in solitary confinement for 23 days, and even his glasses were taken away from him. Kavian says the agents told him that if he...
by designer | 26 Sep 2025 | Refugees
Amid and Sanaz’s son Danial was just four years old when Ministry of Intelligence agents came to arrest his parents. Amid and Sanaz had converted to Christianity a few years earlier, and after the Persian-speaking church they had been attending was told it could...
by designer | 26 Sep 2025 | Refugees
Parsa’s father beat him and kicked him out of the house when he learned that he had converted to Christianity. He was also fired from his job. In 2015, Parsa and two of his Christian friends were finalising their plans for a new business venture together, when their...
by designer | 26 Sep 2025 | Refugees
Ehsan was a university student when he was arrested at a Tehran house-church gathering in November 2015. When he was released on bail six weeks later, he was told he could no longer study at the university and that if he went back there, he would be arrested and sent...
by designer | 26 Sep 2025 | Refugees
In September 2010, Mojtaba and two other Christians were arrested while meeting a friend in the city of Arak to teach him about Christianity. Mojtaba spent the next 170 days in detention, including a week in solitary confinement, during which time he was interrogated...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Sep 2025 | News
Five Christian converts have been sentenced to a combined total of more than 40 years in prison on “propaganda” charges related to their religious activities. The five, only one of whom has been identified, were sentenced in July following their arrests in June last...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Sep 2025 | News
Iran’s Supreme Court has rejected the application for a retrial of a Christian convert serving a 10-year prison sentence for worshipping in a house-church. Mehran Shamloui has been in prison for two months, having been detained on his return to Iran on 3 July, after...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Sep 2025 | News
Eleven UN experts have sent an official communication to Iran, expressing concern at “serious human rights violations” committed during and since the conflict with Israel. The experts, including the Special Rapporteur (SR) on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran, Mai...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Aug 2025 | News
Iranian state media has accused Christians recently arrested by the Ministry of Intelligence of engaging in espionage, in what Article18’s director, Mansour Borji, has called a “clear example of hate speech”. A video report released over the weekend shows footage of...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Aug 2025 | News
An Iranian-American pastor who has been protesting against the detention of some of his church members by the US immigration service says the immigration system in the country is in need of “deep reform”. Ara Torosian, who himself arrived in the US as a refugee 15...
