by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Sep 2019 | News
Embed from Getty Images The European Parliament has called on Iran to “amend” the national-security crime laws “regularly used to prosecute human rights defenders, journalists, environmental and trade union activists and members of religious and ethnic minorities”. In...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Sep 2019 | Case Studies
(Last updated: September 2020) Referenced by Article18, HRANA, World Watch Monitor Summary Sevada Aghasar, an Iranian-Armenian Christian, and Ebrahim Firouzi, a Christian convert, were arrested on 21 August 2013, just a week before Ebrahim was due to be summoned to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Sep 2019 | Case Studies
(Last updated: April 2025) Left to right: Bahram Nasibov, Eldar Gurbanov, Yusif Farhadov and Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh Case referenced by Article18, Middle East Concern, Mohabat News, World Watch Monitor Summary On 24 June 2016, Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh, an Iranian...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Sep 2019 | Case Studies
(Last updated: February 2023) This case study was used as part of a UK government-funded report into the persecution of Christians worldwide. The case involves four converts: Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, Yasser Mossayebzadeh, Saheb Fadaie, and Youhan Omidi. Left...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Sep 2019 | News
Article18’s Advocacy Director, Mansour Borji Interviews and case studies used in the formation of a UK government report into the persecution of Christians worldwide have now been made publicly available. Article18 was the report’s primary source on Iran, contributing...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Sep 2019 | News
(Photo: Mehr) Iran’s Minister of Education says children who profess an unrecognised religious faith at school are engaging in “propaganda” and should be banned. Mohsen Haji Mirzaei made the remarks yesterday at a cabinet meeting, ahead of the new school term. He...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Sep 2019 | News
Embed from Getty Images Researchers at an international Christian charity have urged immigration officials in countries where Iranian converts make asylum claims to focus their questions on the claimant’s “personal experience of Christianity”, rather than the extent...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 31 Aug 2019 | News
Fatemeh Bakhtari presented herself at Tehran’s Evin Prison today to begin her one-year jail sentence. Fatemeh, who is 35 years old and known as Aylar, was informed in May that her appeal against her sentence, for “propaganda against the regime”, had failed. Last...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Aug 2019 | News
Mostafa Rahimi (Hengaw Organization for Human Rights) An Iranian bookseller has been sentenced to three months and one day in prison for selling copies of the Bible, according to a Kurdish rights group. Mostafa Rahimi was reportedly first arrested on 11 June in Bukan,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Aug 2019 | News
Dabrina Bet-Tamraz (Twitter) The daughter of an Iranian-Assyrian couple facing jail time for their Christian activities has said she believes the authorities are trying to draw out court proceedings for as long as possible in the hope they leave the country. An appeal...
