by Steve Dew-Jones | 30 Jan 2020 | Features
Sohrab was forced to leave Tehran after being fired from his job – because he was a Christian. Two years later, he fled the country. An Iranian convert to Christianity and his wife have been in Turkey for nearly five years now, and they are still waiting for...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Jan 2020 | Analysis
By Fred Petrossian The Islamic Republic’s decision to remove the “other religions” option from the national ID-card application form looks set to deny millions of Iranians their citizenship. Under the new regulations from the National Census Bureau, ID-card applicants...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Jan 2020 | News
An Iranian Christian serving a ten-year prison sentence for his membership of a house-church has shared his condolences with the families of those who lost loved ones during the recent downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane. Article18 obtained a copy of the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Jan 2020 | News
Esmaeil Maghrebinezhad, a 65-year-old convert to Christianity, has been sentenced to three years in prison for “insulting Islamic sacred beliefs”. He was sentenced under Article 513 of the Islamic Penal Code, which provides for a punishment of between one and five...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Jan 2020 | News
Iranian Christians continued to suffer multiple violations of their right to freedom of religion of belief in 2019, Article18’s latest annual report reveals. The report, a collaboration with Open Doors International, CSW and Middle East Concern, names 25 Christians...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Jan 2020 | Reports
Iranian Christians continued to suffer multiple violations of their right to freedom of religion of belief in 2019, Article18’s latest annual report reveals. The report, a collaboration with Open Doors International, CSW and Middle East Concern, names 25 Christians...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Jan 2020 | News
Twitter @Marymohammadii Christian convert Fatemeh Mohammadi has been arrested in Tehran and taken to an unknown location, according to the Persian-language news agency HRANA. The 21-year-old, who after her conversion now prefers to be known as Mary, was reportedly...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 15 Jan 2020 | News
Iran remains the ninth hardest country in which to be a Christian, according to the latest annual report of religious-freedom charity Open Doors International. Christians in Iran continue to be subjected to “extreme” levels of persecution, according to Open Doors’...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 13 Jan 2020 | News
An Iranian Christian convert kicked out of university last month, without explanation, has spoken with Article18 about the decision and about the general situation of converts in Iran. Fatemeh Mohammadi, who now prefers to be known as Mary, is a rare example of a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Jan 2020 | Analysis
In the wake of the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, Article18 explains how his Revolutionary Guard Corps became one of the chief instruments of the regime’s ongoing repression of ordinary Iranians, including Christians. Embed from Getty Images It all changed...
