by Steve Dew-Jones | 9 Dec 2025 | News
Five Iranian Christians have been sentenced to a combined more than 50 years in prison on charges related to ordinary religious activities such as praying, performing baptisms, taking Communion and celebrating Christmas. The five include two former prisoners of...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Mar 2025 | News
A Christian convert who had been on hunger strike in Tehran’s Evin Prison for 35 days to protest against the continued persecution of Christians in Iran has suffered a stroke. Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh, who is 63 years old and previously spent nearly five years in...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Feb 2025 | Prisoners
Christian convert Nasser is in prison for the second time, serving a second 10-year sentence on charges related to ordinary religious activities such as praying, performing baptisms, taking Communion and celebrating Christmas. Nasser has been detained since February...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 29 Jun 2021 | News
Christian prisoner of conscience Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh has been told his request for conditional release has been rejected. The news comes as a bitter blow to the Christian convert, who turns 60 in August, having been regularly assured by prison authorities in...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Jan 2019 | News
Christian convert Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh is now one year into his ten-year jail sentence for “acting against national security through the establishment of ‘house churches’”. Nasser, who is 57 years old, was first arrested in June 2016 alongside three Azerbaijanis at...
