by Steve Dew-Jones | 16 May 2024 | News
A pastor serving a six-year sentence in a prison 1,000 miles from his wife and daughter has been told he will no longer be permitted to return home to visit them each month. Abdolreza Ali Haghnejad, who is known as Matthias, has been serving a six-year sentence for...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 10 May 2024 | News
A Christian convert and former asylum-seeker serving a two-year sentence in Evin Prison for “connecting with ‘Zionist’ Christian organisations” is struggling with her mental health and in need of professional help, her mother says. According to the Persian-language...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 May 2024 | News
A Christian convert arrested on Christmas Eve has been released on bail equivalent to more than $10,000 after over four months in detention. Esmaeil Narimanpour, 37, who was previously forced to undergo religious “re-education” with a Muslim cleric, was released on...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 24 Apr 2024 | News
A house-church member who served four months in prison in 2019 for “propaganda against the state” has been charged again with the same “offence”. Shahab Shahi was re-arrested in December 2023 alongside fellow members Alireza Nourmohammadi and Milad Goodarzi – who have...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 23 Apr 2024 | News
Sixty-year-old Christian prisoner of conscience Mina Khajavi is reported to be struggling with pain and unable to access the medical care she requires inside Tehran’s Evin Prison. The Christian convert, who has arthritis and walks with a limp, is serving a six-year...
