by Steve Dew-Jones | 22 Oct 2026 | News
A Christian convert in Evin Prison repeatedly denied treatment and medical leave despite suffering from a number of serious conditions has finally been released on a 10-day furlough, according to reports. The Persian-language Human Rights Activist News Agency reports...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 20 Oct 2026 | News
A Christian convert summoned to begin a five-year prison sentence for “promoting deviant beliefs contrary to the sacred law of Islam”, and her husband, are now outside Iran and do not intend to return. Elnaz Ghorbani was summoned last Saturday to report to Qarchak...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 Oct 2026 | News
Christian convert Hannah Gholami has been “pardoned” and released from the remainder of her two-year prison sentence on charges related to her participation in a house-church. The 36-year-old was arrested three Christmases ago and in total served around half her...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 15 Oct 2026 | News
Christian convert Ghazal Marzban is among over 20 detainees in the women’s ward of Evin Prison who have been denied visitors in recent months as punishment for protesting against conditions in the notorious Tehran facility. Ghazal, who is serving a sentence of nine...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 9 Oct 2026 | News
The wife of an Iranian-Armenian pastor who has been in Evin Prison since February last year has now been summoned to begin her own prison sentence. Lida Alexani, a grandmother who recently celebrated her 58th birthday, is the wife of Joseph Shahbazian, who is...
