by Steve Dew-Jones | 19 May 2026 | News
A lawyer who has defended political prisoners including Iranian Christians has been arrested again in Shiraz, according to reports. According to the Emtedad website, Bahar Sahraian was detained on Saturday, 16 May, while following up on her cases at the Shiraz...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 13 May 2026 | News
A Christian convert serving a two-year sentence in Tehran’s Evin Prison is being denied access to the medical care she badly needs, according to a report from the Persian-language Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). The woman, a mother of around 50 years of...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 8 May 2026 | News
The family of an Iranian Christian convert killed during the January massacre by the Islamic Republic’s security forces continue to be prevented from installing a gravestone over his resting place, according to a report by Iran International. Mohsen Rashidi, who was...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 May 2026 | News
The Islamic Republic of Iran claims to have arrested three leaders of “a Christian evangelistic network” in the central province of Yazd. State media today quoted Yazd prosecutor Mehdi Hassanpour as saying that three of the “main elements” of the “sect” had been...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Mar 2026 | News
A well-known political activist and Christian convert was recently arrested during a violent raid on his home by “approximately 200 armed security personnel”, according to the organisation to which he belongs. The “unprecedented” raid on Mohammad Nikbakht’s home took...
