by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Oct 2018 | News
Article 18’s Mansour Borji (second from left) was among the speakers at this morning’s event (SAT-7) Article18’s advocacy director, Mansour Borji, was one of the speakers at a panel discussion on religious freedom in London this morning. Borji explained...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Sep 2018 | News
Article18’s Mansour Borji addresses the conference (Norge IDAG) Iranian converts to Christianity are at “constant risk” of arrest, Article18’s Advocacy Director, Mansour Borji, told a conference in Norway today. “I want to ask Christians all over the world to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Aug 2018 | News
Clockwise from top-left: Hadi Asgari, Shamiram Issavi, Amin Afshar-Naderi and Victor Bet-Tamraz. Following the publication of numerous reports by Article18 on the violation of the rights of a group of Iranian Christians, Amnesty International today issued an...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 Aug 2018 | News
Shapoor Jozi and his wife Parastou Zariftash are among the 12 The Islamic Revolutionary Court of Bushehr has sentenced 12 Christians to one year’s imprisonment each for “propaganda against the Islamic Republic for the benefit of Christianity”. These...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 Aug 2018 | News
Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh, a Christian convert serving a 10-year sentence in Tehran’s Evin prison for “acting against national security through the establishment of house churches”, says: “It’s clear to all, including the prison authorities, judges, lawyers and my...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Jul 2018 | News
Left to right: Saheb Fadaie, Yousef Nadarkhani, Yasser Mossayebzadeh, and Youhan Omidi. On Sunday morning, 22 July, plainclothes officers attacked the Rasht home of “Church of Iran” pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, and, after beating him and his 16-year-old son, took him...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Jul 2018 | News
(Twitter @NiknamSepanta) A Zoroastrian will be allowed to continue as member of Yazd City Council after Iran’s Expediency Discernment Council voted today that religious minorities can be nominated in the Islamic councils of cities and villages.. Sepanta Niknam had...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Jul 2018 | News
Ramiel Bet-Tamraz, son of pastor Victor Bet-Tamraz and Shamiram Issavi, has been sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for engaging in Christian activities. Christian convert Amir-Saman Dashti and another, who was arrested alongside him in August 2016, received the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 27 Jun 2018 | News
(World Evangelical Alliance) Today the daughter of an Iranian pastor sentenced to ten years in prison has spoken out at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. Dabrina Bet-Tamraz, whose father Victor was sentenced in July last year and whose mother,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 May 2018 | News
Christian convert Aziz Majidzadeh was today released on bail from Evin Prison, pending the formation of formal charges against him. Aziz was arrested on 2 March at a gathering of Christians at a friend’s workshop near Karaj. About 20 Christians were detained and...
