by Steve Dew-Jones | 9 May 2018 | News
Shamiram Issavi’s first appeal hearing against her five-year jail sentence took place today in Tehran. During the hearing, the prosecutor’s representative reportedly accused the entire family of this Assyrian-speaking Christian of activities against the regime...
by Mansour Borji | 1 May 2018 | News
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has cited Iran among the main contributing countries towards an “ongoing downward trend” in religious liberty worldwide and called on the Trump administration to prioritise the release of religious prisoners and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Apr 2018 | News
Left to right: Victor Bet-Tamraz, Amin Afshar-Naderi, Kavian Fallah-Mohammadi, and Hadi Asgari. Reverend Victor Bet-Tamraz and converts Hadi Asgari, Kavian Fallah-Mohammadi and Amin Afshar-Naderi, sentenced to a combined 45 years in prison, had their first appeal...
by designer | 20 Apr 2018 | Reports
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has cited Iran among the main contributing countries towards an “ongoing downward trend” in religious liberty worldwide and asked the State Department to re-designate Iran as a “country of particular concern”, or...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Apr 2018 | News
According to Article18’s sources, Christian convert Aziz Majidzadeh is still being detained, 40 days after his arrest near the city of Karaj. Reports indicate that he was arrested at a friend’s workshop, where a number of Christians had gathered, on the night of 2...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 11 Apr 2018 | News
Christian convert Hadi Asgari was released from Tehran’s Evin Prison on bail today, 19 months after his arrest. His bail had been set at the lofty sum of 170 million tomans (around $50,000) and, when eventually friends helped him to raise the money, it was further...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Mar 2018 | News
Nineteen months since the arrest of Hadi Asgari, judicial authorities are still refusing to allow him to go out on bail until his appeal hearing. One of Hadi’s relatives, whose identity is being withheld for security reasons, told Article18: “Hadi had not been...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Mar 2018 | Analysis
The best way to halt the mass conversions of Iranian Muslims to Christianity is to stop oppressing them, says a Turkish Muslim author. “If [the Iranian regime] want[s] to avert more apostasy from Islam, they should consider oppressing their people less, rather than...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 9 Mar 2018 | News
A church retreat centre in Karaj has been told that it will be confiscated tomorrow by the Executive Headquarters of Iman’s Directive (EIKO), which is under the direct stewardship of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The ruling by the Third Branch of the Revolutionary Court of...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Mar 2018 | News
Iranian Christian prisoner Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh needs immediate dental treatment, but officials in Tehran’s Evin Prison are refusing to allow him to receive it, despite him being in serious pain, Article18 understands. A source close to him told Article18:...
