by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Jan 2024 | News
A 60-year-old Iranian Christian convert has been summoned to begin her six-year prison sentence for “acting against national security by promoting ‘Zionist’ Christianity” through leadership of a house-church. Mina Khajavi, who was arrested back in 2020, was sentenced...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 5 Jan 2024 | News
An Armenian Christian who remains in Evin Prison nearly five months after his arrest faces a first court hearing this Sunday on charges of “propaganda against the state through the promotion of Christianity”. Hakop Gochumyan, who is 35 years old, will be tried at the...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Jan 2024 | News
A Christian convert previously forced to attend “re-education” sessions with an Islamic cleric remains detained following his arrest during a Christmas Eve raid on his home in Dezful, western Iran. Esmaeil Narimanpour’s home was searched and his Christian books...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 3 Jan 2024 | News
Four Christian converts, including an Afghan refugee, remain in detention over three weeks after their arrest in Shahriar, west of Tehran. The arrests followed an 11 December raid by 30 intelligence agents on a house-church gathering, where around 25 men, women and...
by Steve Dew-Jones | 21 Dec 2023 | News
An Armenian citizen, who was one of over 100 Christians arrested in Iran this summer, remains detained in Evin Prison more than four months later. Hakop Gochumyan, 35, was visiting Iran with his wife Elisa, who is an Iranian-Armenian, and their two children, when they...
