by Mansour Borji | 4 Nov 2025 | News
One of five Christian converts sentenced to a combined total of over 40 years in Tehran’s Evin Prison on charges related to their religious activities has begun serving his sentence of nine and a half years. Morteza Faghanpour-Saasi, 38, who is from the city of...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Nov 2025 | Prisoners
Morteza is serving a sentence of nine and a half years in Tehran’s Evin Prison on charges related to his religious activities. Morteza, who is from the city of Varamin, south of Tehran, was one of seven seven Christian converts arrested in June 2024 in Varamin and the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Oct 2025 | News
The chair of the independent US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has said its commissioners “abhor” the recent sentencing of five Iranian Christian converts “on propaganda charges for religious activities”. Hessamuddin Mohammad Junaidi,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 1 Oct 2025 | News
A Tehran appeal court has upheld the convictions of five Christian converts to a combined total of over 40 years in prison on “propaganda” charges related to their religious activities. Hessamuddin Mohammad Junaidi, Abolfazl Ahmadzadeh-Khajani, Morteza...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 30 Sep 2025 | News
One of the five Christian converts recently sentenced to a combined total of more than 40 years in prison was tortured during his six-month pre-trial detention, Article18 can reveal. Morteza Faghanpour-Saasi was one of at least seven converts arrested in the cities of...
