by Steve Dew-Jones | 27 Apr 2015 | News
Two Christians have been sentenced to five years each in prison for “acting against national security by gathering and collusion”. Ebrahim Firouzi (left) and Sevada Aghasar were sentenced today at Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court of Karaj, chaired by Judge...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Apr 2015 | News
At least six converts to Christianity were arrested at a “house church” in Karaj last Friday, 10 April. Among those arrested were Abbas Seifzadeh, Mehdi Abdollahi, Saeed Heidari, Yashar Ghalandari, M. Ishaqi, Hengameh Taghavi, Mohammad Ghadimi, a man named Vahik, and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Mar 2015 | News
Mojtaba Hosseini Christian prisoner of conscience Mojtaba Hosseini has been conditionally released after more than three years in Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz. The Persian-speaking Christian was granted early release on Wednesday, 18 March, 2015. Fellow convert Esmail...
by designer | 15 Mar 2015 | Reports
This joint report is the result of a follow-up enquiry into the persecution of Christians in Iran by the Christians in Parliament All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) and the APPG for International Freedom of Religion or Belief. The report catalogues the abuses...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Feb 2015 | News
Rasoul Abdollahi, a Christian prisoner of conscience, has been granted conditional release from Ward 10 of Rajaei Shahr Prison in Karaj after 15 months’ detention. Conditional release is granted to Christian prisoners who, after serving half their sentences, agree to...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 28 Jan 2015 | News
Christian convert Vahid Hakani has been conditionally released from Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz after nearly three years’ detention. He was released on Monday, 26 January, after providing a written commitment to the Ministry of Intelligence that he will refrain from...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 31 Dec 2014 | News
Pastor Farshid Fathi was sentenced to another year in prison on Monday morning, 29 December, for alleged possession of alcohol. His sentencing took place at Branch 15 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran, and was presided over by Judge Salavati. Farshid, who...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Dec 2014 | News
Pastor Victor Bet-Tamraz, former leader of the Assyrian Pentecostal Church of Tehran (Shahrara), was arrested on Friday, 26 December, along with two of his friends, Amin Afshar-Naderi and Kavian Fallah-Mohammadi, as they celebrated Christmas together. Ten plainclothes...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Dec 2014 | News
An appeals court in Karaj has acquitted two members of the “Church of Iran” of the serious crimes of “moharebeh” (waging war against God) and “spreading corruption on Earth”. Reza Rabbani, known as Silas, and Abdolreza Ali-Haghnejad, known as Matthias, were acquitted...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 25 Nov 2014 | News
A Christian woman prisoner who has been on temporary leave was insulted and strip-searched when she returned to Evin Prison. Maryam (Nasim) Naghash Zargaran had been out of prison for four days – for the first time in 16 months of imprisonment. When she returned...
