The UN Committee Against Torture has four times found Sweden guilty of violation its convention for its decisions to deport Christian converts, underscoring persistent concerns about the country’s immigration practices.

EU countries have been told they cannot automatically reject asylum claims based on professed conversions to Christianity, even if the […]

Iranian Christians in Turkey are no longer eligible for resettlement to the US as part of the refugee sponsorship programme […]

The daughter of an Iranian Christian couple who fled Iran to claim asylum in Turkey has written a poem highlighting […]

An Iranian Christian couple recently resettled in Canada have spoken of their longing to finally be able to call somewhere […]

The director of an organisation that supports refugees in the UK, including Iranian Christians, has spoken to Article18 about the […]

Over the past three years, Article18 has reported on numerous occasions about a group of Iranian Christians in Sweden who […]

Article18 has received firsthand testimonies from five Iranian Christian refugee families who have been arrested in Turkey in recent weeks and taken to “removal centres”, where they have been detained and threatened with deportation.

How much weight should be given to the testimony of church leaders in assessing the credibility of asylum-seekers’ claims to have converted to Christianity?

An Iranian Anglican minister and his family, who had been threatened with deportation from Turkey, have now been safely resettled […]