by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Aug 2020 | News
Article18 can now confirm that Iranian-Assyrian Christians Victor Bet-Tamraz and Shamiram Issavi fled Iran on Saturday, hours before Shamiram was due to begin her five-year prison sentence. The couple’s daughter, Dabrina, told Article18 that while she does not wish to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Aug 2020 | News
Iranian convert Mohammadreza (Youhan) Omidi has been released from prison after completing his reduced two-year sentence for “acting against national security by organising house-churches and promoting ‘Zionist’ Christianity”. Youhan, who is 47 years old, was released...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Aug 2020 | News
An Iranian-Assyrian couple sentenced to a combined 15 years in prison for teaching Muslim converts about Christianity have finally been informed that their longstanding appeals have failed. It’s been more than three years since Victor Bet-Tamraz was sentenced to 10...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 13 Aug 2020 | News
Masih (“Messiah”) Hospital in Kermanshah was founded by Presbyterian missionaries. (Photo: IRNA) A hospital founded by Presbyterian missionaries nearly a century ago has regained its nationally-registered status, protecting it from potential demolition. Masih...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Aug 2020 | News
Left to right: Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh, Zaman (Saheb) Fadaie, Yousef Nadarkhani, Mohammad Reza (Youhan) Omidi, and Mohammad Ali (Yasser) Mossayebzadeh. There are concerns over the health of four Christian prisoners of conscience after one of them tested positive for...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Aug 2020 | News
An Iranian Christian convert has won the top prize in an international film competition* for her short animation depicting a fictional world in which there is no religious freedom. Maral Karaee’s “District 18” tells the story of a little girl who lives in a world...
by designer | 8 Aug 2020 | Prisoners
by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 Aug 2020 | Analysis
Iranian-Armenian MP Ara Shaverdian (left) and Iran’s ambassador to Ireland, Masoud Eslami. (Photos: Mohabat News) Any observer of Iran’s multitudinous religious freedom abuses will be familiar with the repeated denials by regime officials. The latest include...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Aug 2020 | News
Ramin Hassanpour and his wife Kathrin Sajadpour, and Moslem Rahimi. Four Iranian converts have received prison sentences of between two and five years for “acting against national security” by belonging to a house-church and “spreading Zionist Christianity”. Ramin...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Jul 2020 | News
The family of an Iranian-Armenian house-church leader who remains in detention more than three weeks after his arrest have been told they must deposit 3 billion tomans (around $150,000) for his bail. This is twice the previous highest amount demanded to secure the...
