by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Jun 2020 | News
L to R: Pooriya Peyma, Fatemeh Talebi, Maryam Falahi, Sam Khosravi, Habib Heydari, Sasan Khosravi, Marjan Falahi. Seven Christian converts in the south-western Iranian city of Bushehr have been given sentences ranging from prison and exile to work restrictions and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Jun 2020 | News
The UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, Javaid Rehman (UN Web TV) Article18 welcomes the extension of the mandate of the UN’s special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran by another year. Last week, Article18 joined 38 rights groups in...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Jun 2020 | News
Left to right: Saheb Fadaie, Yousef Nadarkhani, and Youhan Omidi. Three converts currently serving 10-year sentences in Tehran’s Evin Prison have had their sentences reduced at a retrial, but they are still facing years in prison and exile. Yousef Nadarkhani and Zaman...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Jun 2020 | News
The Central Assemblies of God Church in Tehran is one of several churches forcibly closed in recent years in Iran. A human rights lawyer whose clients include jailed Christian convert Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh says a recent change to the law in Iran “will facilitate the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Jun 2020 | News
Article18 today joined 38 other rights groups in calling for the renewal of the mandate of the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran. In a joint letter, sent today to all Permanent Missions to the UN in Geneva, the groups call on the UN Human Rights Council...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Jun 2020 | News
The US State Department’s latest annual report on international religious freedom includes a comprehensive overview of Iran’s continued persecution of its religious minorities, including Christians. The report, released yesterday, leans heavily on the information...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 9 Jun 2020 | News
Left to right: Khalil Dehghanpour, Mohammad Vafadar, Kamal Naamanian, Hossein Kadivar. Article18 reported last week that four Iranian converts from the northern city of Rasht had been summoned to begin their five-year prison sentences and given a deadline of 2 June to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Jun 2020 | News
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré Article18 has submitted a new report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, highlighting the “multiple layers” of religious-freedom violations faced by Christians and other religious minorities in Iran. The report, released in...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Jun 2020 | News
Left to right: Victor Bet-Tamraz, his wife Shamiram, Kavian Fallah-Mohammadi, Amin Afshar-Naderi, and Hadi Asgari. Yet another appeal hearing in the long-running court cases against an Iranian-Assyrian pastor, his wife and three Christian converts was postponed today...
by designer | 1 Jun 2020 | Prisoners
Mina Khajavi, a Christian convert in her sixties, is serving her sentence in Evin Prison, Tehran, and began her six-year term on 8 January 2024. She was arrested in 2020 while attending a worship service at the home of a fellow convert in Yaft-Abad, Tehran, along with...
