by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Mar 2019 | News
Javaid Rehman was appointed special rapporteur in July 2018 (Photo: Twitter@JavaidRehman) The UN has today renewed the mandate of its special rapporteur on human rights in Iran for another year following a joint letter by 42 rights groups,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Mar 2019 | News
Seven of the nine “Church of Iran” members arrested this year in Rasht have been released on bail, but two remain detained. L to R: Abdolreza (Matthias) Ali-Haghnejad, Khalil Dehghanpour, and Hossein Kadivar (Middle East Concern) Babak Hosseinzadeh, Mehdi Khatibi,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 14 Mar 2019 | News
A coalition of 42 rights groups, including Article18, have called for the renewal of the mandate of the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in Iran. In a joint letter to members of the UN’s human rights council, the groups highlight the “persistence of serious,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Mar 2019 | News
Around 450 Iranian Christians attended the service on Saturday (Twitter@WakeCathedral) A Farsi-language service has been held at an Anglican church in the UK for the first time, in recognition of the growing number of Iranian-born Christians attending churches across...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Mar 2019 | News
Javaid Rehman (Twitter) The UN’s Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran has bemoaned the “heavy sentences” given to Iranian Christians and called for the “release of all those imprisoned for having exercised their right to freedom of religion or belief”. In his...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Feb 2019 | News
Three more members of the “Church of Iran” network in Rasht have been arrested, taking the total to nine in the past month. Babak Hosseinzadeh and Mehdi Khatibi were arrested at two separate “house churches” on Saturday evening, reports Middle East Concern. ...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Feb 2019 | News
Amnesty appealed for release of (clockwise from top left): Hadi Asgari, Shamiram Issavi, Amin Afshar-Naderi, Victor Bet-Tamraz. Iran’s “systematic violation” of freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) was just one of the ways the 40-year-old regime “suppressed” human...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Feb 2019 | News
A video has been posted online showing a desecrated Christian cemetery in Kerman. “I’m in Kerman and this used to be a Christian cemetery… But all the graves have been dug up and the bodies taken away,” says the journalist reporting for Manoto TV, a...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Feb 2019 | News
Twenty-six-year-old convert to Christianity Sina Moloudian has been charged with “propaganda against the state through the promotion of the Christian faith and the distribution of Bibles”. Sina was released from Isfahan’s Dastgerd Prison on 4 February after posting...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Feb 2019 | News
L to R: Kamal Naamanian, Mohammad Vafadar and Shahrooz Eslamdoust (Middle East Concern) Three more members of the imprisoned pastor Yousef Nadarkhani’s “Church of Iran” group in Rasht have been arrested and taken to an unknown location. Kamal Naamanian, Mohammad...
