by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Mar 2025 | News
Iranian Christian convert Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh remains on hunger strike in Tehran’s Evin Prison, nearly one month after his re-arrest. The 63-year-old was rearrested on 6 February, the same day as fellow former prisoner of conscience Joseph Shahbazian, an...
by Mansour Borji | 18 Feb 2025 | News
Plainclothes officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) raided a gathering of around 80 Christians in a garden in northern Iran earlier this month, confiscating Bibles and musical instruments, and arresting one of the attendees. Christian convert Somayeh...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 Feb 2025 | News
Two Christians in their 60s who were “pardoned” and released after a combined six years in prison on charges related to their leadership of house-churches have been re-arrested, Article18 understands. According to Article18’s sources, Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 7 Jan 2025 | News
The head of Iran’s judiciary has boasted about the decision to provide Christian prisoners with five days leave over Christmas, neglecting to mention that in excess of 40 Christians were arrested for participating in Christmas celebrations in December, while at...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 6 Jan 2025 | News
A Catholic convert arrested after protesting against her mistreatment by the Iranian authorities has been released after two months in Evin Prison, but faces a further four months behind bars and 74 lashes if any further “offence” is committed within the next five...
