by designer | 12 Feb 2018 | News
A Christian convert arrested ahead of Christmas in Tabriz, northwest Iran, is still in the city’s central prison, according to Article18’s sources. Ali Amini (nicknamed Philip) was arrested by intelligence agents on 10 December, when they stormed his workplace...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Feb 2018 | News
Left to right: Victor Bet-Tamraz, Amin Afshar-Naderi, Kavian Fallah-Mohammadi, and Hadi Asgari. Yesterday’s appeal hearing for Iranian-Assyrian pastor Victor Bet-Tamraz and Christian converts Amin Afshar-Naderi, Hadi Asgari and Kavian Fallah-Mohammadi was postponed...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 2 Feb 2018 | News
L to R: Victor Bet-Tamraz, Amin Afshar-Naderi, Kaviyan Fallah-Mohamadi and Hadi Asgari Four UN human rights experts have called on Iran to ensure three Christians facing between 10 and 15 years in prison are given a “fair and transparent final hearing”. Assyrian...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Jan 2018 | News
Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh was today transferred to Evin Prison to begin his 10-year jail sentence for “acting against national security through the establishment of ‘house churches’”. The Christian convert has been taken to Section 8, Hall 10 of the notorious prison in...
by designer | 12 Jan 2018 | News
The court hearing on the case of Shamiram Issavi, the wife of the pastor Victor Bet-Tamraz, was held on 6 January at a Revolutionary Court in Tehran under the chairmanship of Judge Mashallah Ahmadzadeh. The Iranian-Assyrian Christian was sentenced to five years in...
by designer | 23 Nov 2017 | News
Christian convert Mohammad Ali Torabi has been released from Ahvaz Prison on bail of 200 million tomans (around $60,000). Mohammad, 39, who is known as Davoud among his Christian friends and is part of the Message of Freedom Church, was arrested in Dezful on 10...
by designer | 12 Nov 2017 | News
An Iranian court has upheld the ten-year prison sentences given to one Iranian and three Azerbaijani Christians in July. Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh, an Iranian convert to Christianity, was arrested alongside the Azerbaijanis – Eldar Gurbanov, Yusif Farhadov...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Oct 2017 | News
A second Christian convert has been arrested by intelligence agents in the western city of Dezful, as the crackdown on Christians there gathers pace. Abdul Ali Pourmand, who is known as Elias, was summoned to the office of the Ministry of Intelligence on 17 October...
by Mansour Borji | 12 Oct 2017 | News
Mohammad Ali Torabi, an Iranian convert to Christianity, has been arrested in the city of Dezful, in the southwest of the country. Security agents detained Mohammad at his office in the Qal’a Sayyed district of Dezful on Tuesday, 10 October and took him to an unknown...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Sep 2017 | News
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have published photographs of piles of confiscated Christian items, including Bibles, New Testaments, teaching books and worship music. Article18’s Advocacy Director, Mansour Borji, told World Watch Monitor the photographs were a “publicity...
