Iranian Christian converts Homayoun Zhaveh and his wife Sara Ahmadi were sentenced to two and 11 years in prison, respectively, in November 2020 for membership and leadership of a house-church.
Ismaeil Maghrebinejad initially faced four charges after his arrest on 25 January 2019: “propaganda against the state”, “apostasy”, “insulting Islamic sacred beliefs” and “membership of a group hostile to the regime”.
These nine Christians are serving five-year prison sentences.
This case study was used as part of a UK government-funded report into the persecution of Christians worldwide. Case referenced by Article18, […]
Sevada Aghasar, an Iranian-Armenian Christian, and Ebrahim Firouzi, a Christian convert, were arrested on 21 August 2013, just a week before Ebrahim was due to be summoned to serve a one-year jail sentence.
Christian convert Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh was arrested alongside three Christians visiting from Azerbaijan – Eldar Gurbanov, Yusif Farhadov and Bahram Nasibov – in June 2016 at a private gathering near Tehran.
This case study was used as part of a UK government-funded report into the persecution of Christians worldwide. The case […]
This case study was used as part of a UK government-funded report into the persecution of Christians worldwide. The case involves four Christians […]