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...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 26 Mar 2024 | News
A Christian convert who was baptised in a church in Malaysia has been sentenced to two years in prison in Iran for “acting against national security by connecting with ‘Zionist’ Christian organisations”. Laleh Saati, who is 45 years old, returned to Iran in 2017,...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 4 Mar 2024 | News
A house-church member in a city near Tehran has been charged with “teaching activities that educate in a deviant way contrary to the holy religion of Islam, through making false religious claims”. Hossein Sha’bani, who is 47 years old and known as Youhana, was...
