by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Dec 2012 | News
Left to right: Homayoun Shekoohi, Mojtaba Hosseini, Vahid Hakani, and Mohammad Reza Partovi. Article18’s Advocacy Director, Mansour Borji, has spoken to Radio Farda’s Fred Petrossian about the situation of four Christian prisoners in Shiraz. In the article, Borji...
by designer | 1 Dec 2012 | Reports
This joint report is the result of an 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, whose work is to ensure that religious freedom...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Nov 2012 | News
Article18’s Advocacy Director, Mansour Borji, has expressed “grave concern” about the physical condition of imprisoned church leader Behnam Irani. “Various reports describe Behnam’s physical condition as serious and we are concerned about his...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 Jun 2012 | News
A church in western Tehran has been forced to close by order of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps. The pastor of the church, Robert Gogtapeh, was informed of the decision on 29 May. Then, last Tuesday, Revolutionary Guard intelligence agents ordered the Council of the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Jun 2012 | News
Mehrdad Sajjadi, a leader at the Emmanuel Evangelical Church in Tehran, was arrested together with his wife Forough Dashtiani on Thursday 24 May in Karaj. The news follows an alarming trend in closures and imposed restrictions on churches that hold services in the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 17 Feb 2012 | News
Two officially registered churches in Tehran have been told they can no longer conduct services in the Persian language, nor hold any meetings on Fridays – Iran’s day off. Emmanuel Protestant Church and St Peter’s Evangelical Church both received a letter on 10...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 27 Dec 2011 | News
Farhad Sabokrooh, with his wife Shahnaz Jizan The pastor of the Assemblies of God Church in Ahvaz has been detained, alongside his wife and two church members, following a raid on their Christmas celebration. Everyone present at the celebration was initially arrested,...
by designer | 18 Oct 2011 | Witness Statements
Background 1. I am Danial Shahri. I was born on 10 November, 1990, in a Christian family in Isfahan. My parents are both blind and converted to Christianity from Islam. I was a student in Iran and was active in a “house church” in Isfahan. Our house church...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 Apr 2011 | News
Six converts from Islam have been acquitted of “apostasy”, “blasphemy” and “acting against national security” but sentenced to a year each in prison for “propaganda against the regime”. Behrouz Sadegh-Khanjani. It had been feared that Behrouz Sadegh-Khanjani, Parviz...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Jan 2011 | News
Some of the Christians currently detained in Iran. Scores of Christians in Tehran and other cities have been arrested at their homes in recent days as part of a mass operation by agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence. The governor of Tehran, Morteza Tamadon,...
