by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Jul 2019 | News
(Middle East Concern) A 62-year-old woman convert to Christianity arrested shortly before Christmas is due to appear in court next week, reports Middle East Concern. Rokhsareh (Mahrokh) Ghanbari has been summoned to appear at the Revolutionary Court in Karaj next...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 18 Jul 2019 | News
Dabrina Bet-Tamraz (right) spoke yesterday at the second annual Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom in Washington, DC. (Photo: Twitter @DemandForAction) The daughter of an Iranian couple facing long prison sentences for their Christian activities has spoken out...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 17 Jul 2019 | News
The cross on top of the Assyrian Presbyterian Evangelical Church in Tabriz was replaced last week, two months to the day since it was taken down. A pro-government news agency in Iran has claimed the Assyrian church in Tabriz was never forcibly closed, as Article18...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 17 Jul 2019 | Case Studies
This case study was used as part of a UK government-funded report into the persecution of Christians worldwide. Case referenced by Article18, Assyrian International News Agency, Iranwire, Radio Farda, World Watch Monitor, Voice of the Martyrs Canada. Case Summary On...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 17 Jul 2019 | Case Studies
(Last updated: September 2020) This case study was used as part of a UK government-funded report into the persecution of Christians worldwide. The case involves four Christians handed long jail sentences: Victor Bet-Tamraz, his wife Shamiram Issavi, and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 12 Jul 2019 | News
A young female Christian convert and activist who spent six months in prison for her membership of a Tehran house-church was arrested on Tuesday for “improper” hijab, HRANA reports. Fatemeh Mohammadi, 19, who completed her jail sentence in the spring of last...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Jul 2019 | News
The cross has been replaced on top of the forcibly closed Assyrian church in Tabriz following a global outcry. In the 9 July photo Article18 has been able to obtain, some men can be seen placing the cross back on the tower. It was torn down on 9 May as agents from the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 9 Jul 2019 | News
The US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, yesterday lamented the “intense” persecution of Christians in Iran, during a speech in Washington, DC. “Persecution of the faithful is especially intense inside the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he told the audience at...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Jul 2019 | News
Left to right: Yaghoob Nateghi, Milad Goodarzi, Amin Khaki, Alireza Nourmohammadi and Shahab Shahi. Five Iranian converts submitted themselves to the central detention centre in Karaj on Saturday to begin their jail sentences for “propaganda against the state”. Manoto...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Jul 2019 | Reports
Although Christians in the Armenian and Assyrian churches may practise their faith within strict confines, persecution in Iran is on the rise for others and most of it is targeted at Christians from a Muslim background and Protestant Christians. Just before...
